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.
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