One of the Russian girls who studied mathematics under Weierstrass at Berlin, Sophie Kovalévsky, became a mathematician of high repute, and was invited to a professorship at Stockholm; she was, I believe, the first woman in our century to hold a professorship in a university for men.
Kropotkin celebrates Sophie Kovalévsky as a pioneering female mathematician who achieved a professorship in a male-dominated field.
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