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Kovalevsky

American  
[kov-uh-lef-skee, -lev-] / ˌkɒv əˈlɛf ski, -ˈlɛv- /

noun

  1. Sonia Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, 1850–91, Russian mathematician.


Kovalevsky Scientific  
/ kŏv′ə-lĕvskē /
  1. Russian mathematician who made important contributions to calculus. Her mathematical determination of the shape of Saturn's rings became a model for other scientists.


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Beryozkin, Evgeny Kovalevsky and Frenchman Vincent Thomas Garate had left St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 1, 2021, and had been sailing from Vanuatu to Cairns when they got into trouble.

From Seattle Times

“Miss Kovalevsky’s equations? Miss Bird’s travels to the Sandwich Islands?”

From Literature

I have even participated in Sonia Kovalevsky Days,* events to help get girls interested in studying math.

From Scientific American

In moths and certain saw-flies there is no rupture of the membranes; the Russian zoologists Tichomirov and Kovalevsky have described the growth of both amnion and embryonic ectoderm around the yolk, the embryo being thus completely enclosed until hatching time by both amnion and serosa.

From Project Gutenberg

Kovalévsky, Sónya, 133, 161-165, 397; weight of brain of, 123 and footnote; studies of, in Germany, 162; appointment of, to chair of higher mathematics, in University of Stockholm, 162, 163; Prix Bordin won by, 163.

From Project Gutenberg