Nadeschda Gernet

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. Provided by Wikipedia