A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary

by Ann Hibner Koblitz

Book Overview

To inaugurate a new series, Lives of Women in Science, Rutgers University Press is reissuing this much-acclaimed biography of Sofia Kovalevskaia, the renowned nineteenth-century mathematician, writer, and revolutionary.

Sofia Kovalevskaia's interest in mathematics was roused at an early age--her attic nursery had been wallpapered with lecture notes for a course on calculus. She spent hours studying the mysterious walls, trying to figure out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813519632
• ISBN13: 9780813519630
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"