A Russian Childhood

S. Kovalevskaya (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2010 | 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1978
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2808-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2010
Mitarbeit	Assistent: P.Y. Kochina
Überarbeitung	B. Stillman
Übersetzer	B. Stillman
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 252 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4419-2808-1 / 1441928081
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-2808-5 / 9781441928085
Zustand	Neuware