Remembering Dostoevsky
22nd March 2012
Published in Stockholm in 1889, this is a first edition of the childhood reminiscences of Sonya Kovalevsky (Sof’ia Kovalevskaia in Russian, 1850–1891), ‘the greatest woman mathematician prior to the twentieth century’ and the first woman to hold a university chair in modern Europe. Kovalevsky wrote this account of her childhood in Russia, translated from her […]
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