Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya

• Main Author: Audin, Michèle (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Gender Studies.

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...

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.