Accomplishments of Sofia as an Educator
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After six years of rejections face by Sofia due to the "handicap" of her sex, she had become discouraged in finding employment. Sofia was appointed to a five year extraordinary professorship at the University of Stockholm, Sweden in June of 1884, and then became the first woman since physicists Laura Bassi and Maria Gaetana Agnesi to hold a chair at a European university.
Sofia also carried out her most important reasearch while in Stockholm, taught courses on the latest topics in analysis, and even became the editor of the Acta Mathematics; this expanded her talents into the writing field as well.
Later, Sofia took over the liaison of the mathematicians of Paris and Berlin, then she also took part in the organisation of international conferences.
In 1886 Sofia was awarded the Prix Bordin for one of her papers which was based "On the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point." As she continued researching this topic, she won a prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1889, in the same year that she was elected as a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
If it were not for Sofia Kovalevskaya, women would not have the power in mathematics as we do in society today. She was the first female mathematics professor and changed perspectives of many through her mathematical abilities. The information she presented on partial differential equations is now commonly recognized as the Caughy-Kovalevski theorem today. Her legacy still lives on in the Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day which encourages girls to engage in mathematics.
After six years of rejections face by Sofia due to the "handicap" of her sex, she had become discouraged in finding employment. Sofia was appointed to a five year extraordinary professorship at the University of Stockholm, Sweden in June of 1884, and then became the first woman since physicists Laura Bassi and Maria Gaetana Agnesi to hold a chair at a European university.
Sofia also carried out her most important reasearch while in Stockholm, taught courses on the latest topics in analysis, and even became the editor of the Acta Mathematics; this expanded her talents into the writing field as well.
Later, Sofia took over the liaison of the mathematicians of Paris and Berlin, then she also took part in the organisation of international conferences.
In 1886 Sofia was awarded the Prix Bordin for one of her papers which was based "On the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point." As she continued researching this topic, she won a prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1889, in the same year that she was elected as a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
If it were not for Sofia Kovalevskaya, women would not have the power in mathematics as we do in society today. She was the first female mathematics professor and changed perspectives of many through her mathematical abilities. The information she presented on partial differential equations is now commonly recognized as the Caughy-Kovalevski theorem today. Her legacy still lives on in the Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day which encourages girls to engage in mathematics.