Nadeschda or Nadezhda Nikolayevna Gernet was a Russian mathematician. Gernet was the second woman in Russia to earn a doctorate.
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Nadeschda or Nadezhda Nikolayevna Gernet 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.
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Lived 1877 to 1943 · aged 66
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