A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya - Books - Springer-Verlag New York Inc. - 9780387903484 - December 19, 1978
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S. Kovalevskaya
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In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes- sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub- lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor Kovalevskaya was already an international celebrity, and partly for the wrong reasons: less as the distinguished mathematician she actually was than as a "mathematical lady"-a bizarre but fascinating phenomenon.* Her book was an immediate success. She had written it in Russian, but its first publication was a translation into Swedish, the language of her adopted homeland, where it appeared thinly disguised as a novel under the title From Russian Ltfe: the Rajevski Sisters (Sonja Kovalevsky. Ur ryska lifvet. Systrarna Rajevski. Heggstrom, 1889). In the following year the book came out in Russia in two *"My gifted Mathematical Assistant Mr. Hammond exclaimed ...'Why, this is the first handsome mathematical lady I have ever seen!'" Letter to S. V. Kovalevskaya from].]. Sylvester, Professor of Mathe- matics, New College, Oxford, Dec. 25, 1886.

252 pages, biography

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 19, 1978
ISBN13 9780387903484
Publishers Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Pages 252
Dimensions 166 × 241 × 20 mm   ·   562 g
Language English  
Translator Stillman, B.

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