Kovalevsky

[ kov-uh-lef-skee, -lev- ]

noun

1. So·nia [sohn, -y, uh], Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, 1850–91, Russian mathematician.

Kovalevsky

/ kŏv′ə-lĕv′skē /

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.

Example Sentences

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

Stockholm, University of, appointment of Sónya Kovalévsky to chair of higher mathematics in, 162, 183; Sónya Kovalévsky's lectures at, 164 footnote.

From Project Gutenberg