Teacher: Erin Toole
School: Washington County High School, Washington, KS

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "[Sofya Kovalevskaya] is drawn from her formula, a simplified version of the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem, as a symbol of her accomplishments, lasting mark on the mathematical world, and how her works in mathematics, not her gender, defined her."

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