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Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Born: January 15, 1850
Died: February 10, 1891 (aged 41)
Bio: Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.