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Episode 023 - Sofia Kovalevskaya | Mathematics

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Alternate Title: Name Drops and Spinning Tops

Emma tells Emlyn about the first woman to get at PhD in Mathematics, Dr. Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Emlyn tells Emma about the burden of antimicrobial resistance in the EU! 

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Main Story - Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya

  1. Alic, Margaret. (1986) Hypatia's heritage : a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. http://www.worldcat.org/title/hypatias-heritage-a-history-of-women-in-science-from-antiquity-to-the-late-nineteenth-century/oclc/1023906461
  • Cooke, R. (1984) The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387960302
  • Lamb, Evelyn (2017) A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Kovalevskaya Top. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-kovalevskaya-top/
  • Ellison, Leigh (2002) Sofia Kovalevskaya. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/index.html
  • Wilson, Becky (1997) Sofia Kovalevskaya. https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/kova.htm
  • Belits, Yuriy (2005) A Brief Biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya. https://web.archive.org/web/20060920215141/http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wcherowi/courses/m4010/s05/belitspdf.pdf
  • Meares, Kimberley. The Works of Sonya Kovalevskaya http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2000/sofia/SKpaper.html

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    Tacconelli, E. and M.D. Pezzani (2018). Public health burden of antimicrobial resistance in Europe. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30648-0/fulltext


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