Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays of Sofia Kovalevskaya - Softcover

Kovalevskaya, Sofia

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985029802

Verlag: Bohannon Hall Press, 2021

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Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet begins with the story of why and how a math professor, artist and poet wanted to and was able to develop the translations of nine poems and two plays written by Sofia Kovalevskaya when, in the beginning, she did not even know the sounds or order of the letters in the Russian alphabet . The poems and two plays, How it Was and How It Might Have Been, enhance the life story of a brave young Russian woman who entered into a fictitious marriage so that she could travel to Germany to study mathematics. By earning the first PhD in mathematics awarded to a woman, Kovalevskaya broke open the long tightly closed doors to university education for women. Her poems and plays reveal a woman of great passion who clearly wanted to be remembered for much more than her mathematics!

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At a time when women were not allowed to attend university classes, Sofia Korvin-Krukovskaya entered into a fictitious marriage with a young scientist, Vladimir Kovalevsky, so that he could help her get a passport to travel to Germany to study mathematics. She was invited to study privately at the home of mathematician, Karl Weierstrass, after she impressed him with her mathematical ability. After four years of hard work, she succeeded in obtaining a doctoral degree, the first ever awarded to a woman. She went on to win the prestigious Prix Bordin and became an editor of Acta Mathematica. In 1889, in Sweden, she was awarded a full professorship, another important first for women. In addition to her high mathematical honors, she published a widely-acclaimed autobiography, "A Russian Childhood," a successful novella, "Nihilist Girl," and two parallel plays, "How It Was" and "How It Might Have Been."

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• Verlag: Bohannon Hall Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798985029802
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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