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

ISBN: 0813519632

ISBN13: 9780813519630

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

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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...

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