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

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ISBN-13: 9780813519623
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1993
Series: Lives of Women in Science
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 346

	Series Foreword
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Ch. I	Early Childhood and Family Relations	9
Ch. II	Political and Scientific Development; Early Influences	31
Ch. III	A Fictitious Marriage	55
Ch. IV	In Search of Education	81
Ch. V	Berlin and the Paris Commune	99
Ch. VI	A Doctorate in Mathematics	113
Ch. VII	Mathematics in Abeyance	125
Ch. VIII	A Slow Reawakening	143
Ch. IX	A Vagabond Mathematician	155
Ch. X	"A Princess of Science"	179
Ch. XI	A Woman in the European Mathematical Community	195
Ch. XII	Kovalevskaia's Final Years	211
Ch. XIII	Kovalevskaia's Mathematics	239
Ch. XIV	Kovalevskaia's Literary Works	257
Ch. XV	Conclusion	269
	Bibliography	277
	Index	299

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