A Russian childhood /
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| Author / Creator: | Kovalevskai͡a, S. V. (Sofʹi͡a Vasilʹevna), 1850-1891 |
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| Uniform title: | Vospominanii͡a detstva. English |
| Imprint: | New York : Springer-Verlag, c1978. |
| Description: | xiii, 250 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English Russian |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/336595 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Translation of Vospominanii͡a detstva. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 250 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0387903488 |
