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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

The life of Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya - She Learned Calculus From Wallpaper


Cauchy–Kovalevskaya Theorem

A fundamental theorem establishing the existence and uniqueness of solutions to certain partial differential equations.

\[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = F\left(x, t, u, \frac{\partial u}{\partial x}, \dots \right) \]

Kovalevskaya Top

A new exact solution to the problem of the motion of a rigid body around a fixed point.

\[ I_1 = I_2 = 2I_3, \quad x_0 = y_0 = 0 \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kovalevskaya/

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