15th January is reserved to Sofia Kovalevskaya
On this date in 1850, Sofia Kovalevskaya was born in Moscow, Russian Empire. Despite her early aptitude with mathematics, women were not allowed to attend university in Russia, so she arranged a fictitious marriage to Vladimir Kovalevskij and emigrated to Germany.
In 1874 she became the first woman in Europe to earn a doctoral degree in mathematics. One of the papers she published at the time introduced a theorem that gave the conditions for solutions to a set of partial differential equations. In the 1880s she moved to Sweden and became the first woman to hold a professorial chair in northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.
Bio:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Kovalevskaya.html
#womeninstem #kovalevskaya #history
She's kinda cute.
ReplyDeleteShe's a specific success that highlights the general tragedy. Imagine how many exceptional women have been relegated to unexceptional lives due to sexual discrimination. Things are obviously better today and yet far from entirely so:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2016/01/poorer-physics-grades-for-girls.html
Besides Corina Marinescu, these are the types of Women of Strength and Intelligence that I'd like my Daughter Aaleya continue to emulate! My Daughter embraces Her "nerdness" and continues to maintain Her Honor Society status! Not an easy task when the kardashacraps are being force fed on our most impressionable! Thank You for ALL your incredibly mind expanding posts!
ReplyDeleteLike I said, she kinda cute.
ReplyDeletestephen carter you did indeed make that pithy contribution. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteForcing honest people to do dishonest things. I'm so glad we've fixed that much about our society. Women are allowed to vote, own things, handle their own finances and life choices, go to school and get jobs. We're getting better all the time!
ReplyDeleteCuteness is momentary...but brain sparkling, well, that is a long term deal ;)
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ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu. Its easier to be "clever" than cute.
ReplyDeleteIntelligence is overrated. It is a thing that can be cultivated with it's recognition and the concomitant growing confidence from that recognition ( One is allowed to fail and solve problems without being socially isolated).
Intelligence is a quality that other people can choose to either recognize or ignore.
You are LUCKY if a more powerful person puts their ego aside and CHOSES to recognize your intelligence.
Ya just can't ignore cuteness. You're either cute or ya ain't.
Cute people tend to be charming.
Intelligent people tend to be self-absorbed....and a drag. That's why we ignore them.
You can be as intelligent as you like, but you better also be cute, charming or cunning or you ain't going nowhere.
Manny Kim. The overwhelming majority of human beings throughout history, have gone from 'ashes to ashes' without their talents ever being "recognized" , for various reasons.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, there are even "geniuses" who went unrecognized, simply because they were left-handed in a right-handed world.
Welcome to humanity.