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A Russian Childhood (Hardcover, 1978 ed.) Loot Price: R3,329
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A Russian Childhood (Hardcover, 1978 ed.): P.Y. Kochina

A Russian Childhood (Hardcover, 1978 ed.)

P.Y. Kochina; S. Kovalevskaya; Translated by B. Stillman; Revised by B. Stillman; Edited by B. Stillman

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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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Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 1978
First published: December 1978
Assisted by: P.Y. Kochina
Authors: S. Kovalevskaya
Translators: B. Stillman
Revised by: B. Stillman
Editors: B. Stillman
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Edition: 1978 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-90348-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
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LSN: 0-387-90348-8
Barcode: 9780387903484

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