Nadeschda Gernet
Nadeschda Gernet | |
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| Born | April 18, 1877 Simbirsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 3, 1943 (aged 65) |
| Resting place | Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery |
| Education | Ph.D., University of Göttingen Master, University of Moscow |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
Nadeschda Gernet, also Nadezhda, Russian: Надежда Николаевна Гернет, (April 18, 1877 – January 1, 1943), was a Russian mathematician. Gernet was the second woman in Russia to earn a doctorate. She extended the calculus of variations to further functions on the basis developed by her instructor, David Hilbert, and was one of the first to include inequalities in the calculus of variations.