Kovalevskaya's further research on this subject won a prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1889, and in the same year, on the initiative of Chebyshev, Kovalevskaya was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Kovalevskaya ng karagdagang pananaliksik sa paksa na ito napanalunan ng isang premyo mula sa Swedish Academy of Sciences sa 1889, at sa parehong taon, sa ang mga inisyatiba ng Chebyshev, Kovalevskaya ay elected isang nararapat na miyembro ng Imperial Academy of Sciences.