This memoir is a personal exploration of the life, the writings and the mathematical achievements of a the 19th century Russian mathematician, Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), who became arguably the first woman to have a professional university career in the way we understand it…
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 underst…