
A Russian Childhood
S. Kovalevskaya(Author)
B. Stillman(Editor)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 3. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 252 pages
978-1-4419-2808-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1978
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XIV, 252 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4419-2808-5 (9781441928085)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-3839-1
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