A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya - Books - Springer-Verlag New York Inc. - 9781441928085 - December 3, 2010
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S. Kovalevskaya
A Russian Childhood Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1978 edition

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Marc Notes: Translated from the Russian.; Includes bibliographical references. Publisher Marketing: 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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 3, 2010
ISBN13 9781441928085
Publishers Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Pages 252
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   390 g
Language English  
Translator Stillman, B.

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