Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts

Sofia Kovalevskaya [1850-1891] Russian
Rank: 104
Mathematician


Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, was the first major Russian female mathematician. She was responsible for some important original contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. 

Imagination, Science



QuoteTagsRank
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
101
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
102
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. Imagination, Science
103

The script ran 0.004 seconds.