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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| Other title: | Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya. English. |
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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.