Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Remembering Sophia Kovalevsky
With Reason: A Portrait by JoAnne Growney (June 2012)
Sophia Kovalevsky * (1850-1891)
Because she was Russian . . .
Because she had abundant curly hair . . .
Because she loved mathematics . . .
Because she was born in the 19th century . . .
Because lecture notes for calculus papered her nursery walls . . .
Because her parents forbade her to leave home . . .
Because a woman could not travel abroad from Russia
without her father or a husband . . .
Because she found a kind man to marry . . .
Because ideas came to her in torrents . . .
Because she married a man she did not love . . .
Labels:
calculus,
Cauchy,
fixed point,
Integral,
Karl Weierstrass,
mathematics,
poetry,
Russia,
Sophia Kovalevsky
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