Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), Mathematician We start in 19th century Russia, with a woman who wasn’t supposed to exist, at least not in mathematics. Sofia Kovalevskaya grew up in a Russia where universities were closed to women entirely. Her solution was characteristically audacious: she arranged a marriage of convenience to obtain a passport, moved to Germany, and proceeded to become the
Podcast transcripts Welcome to Math! Science! History! I’m Gabrielle Birchak, your host. For Women’s History Month, I wanted to feature one brilliant thing, one clean win, and one woman whose work still quietly runs the world, even if most of us do not realize it. Today’s “one brilliant thing” was a sorting system. A classification scheme. A way to take the universe,
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