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A Russian Childhood S. Kovalevskaya Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1978 edition
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S. Kovalevskaya
Marc Notes: Translated from the Russian.; Includes bibliographical references. Publisher Marketing: 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.
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 3 de dezembro de 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9781441928085 |
| Editoras | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Páginas | 252 |
| Dimensões | 152 × 229 × 14 mm · 390 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
| Tradutor | Stillman, B. |