Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya [electronic resource] / Michèle Audin.

Sofia Kovalevskaya was a brilliant and determined young Russian woman of the 19th century who wanted to become a mathematician and who succeeded, in often difficult circumstances, in becoming arguably the first woman to have a professional university career in the way we understand it today. This me...

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Main Author: Audin, Michèle
Other title:Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya. English.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: London ; New York : Springer, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sofya's chronology
  • Sofya's names
  • Stories
  • The thesis of Sofya, the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem
  • The Solid
  • A letter to Mittag-Leffler
  • Stockholm
  • A letter to Vollmar
  • The Bordin prize and Sofya's reputation
  • The women of Men of mathematics
  • I remember Sofya, by George, Gösta, Julia and all the rest
  • I too remember Sofya
  • Bibliography.