Nadezhda Gernet

Nadeschda Nikolayevna Gernet (Also cited as Nadezhda.) That fall, she began her higher education at Women's University of Saint Petersburg, where she took science and math-related classes. Gernet's academic interests included, but were not limited to, mathematics, astronomy, and physics. Anne Bosworth having been the first. In her thesis, Gernet extended the calculus of variations and generalized Hilbert's independence theorem to the case of two unknown functions.

As her German doctorate was not recognized in Russia, in 1915 Gernet submitted her thesis On the Fundamental Simplest Problems of Variation Calculus to Moscow University in order to obtain a Russian master's degree which would also enable her to take up a university position. Gernet included a summary of the past achievements within the field of calculus of variations, and she was the first to attempt the inclusion of inequalities in the calculus of variations. Her curriculum focused on educating female students in the Women's Higher Courses. On January 1, 1943, Gernet died in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) during the blockades of the Siege of Leningrad and was buried in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery.

Gernet's publications raised new discussions, and her work encouraged further development in the calculus of variations.

Publications On One New Method in the Variation of Calculus On the Fundamental Simplest Problems of Variation Calculus