A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary / Edition 1

A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary / Edition 1

by Ann Koblitz
ISBN-10:
0813519632
ISBN-13:
9780813519630
Pub. Date:
03/01/1993
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10:
0813519632
ISBN-13:
9780813519630
Pub. Date:
03/01/1993
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary / Edition 1

A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary / Edition 1

by Ann Koblitz

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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 which page followed from the next. Kovalevskaia (1850-1891) became the only woman mathematician whose name all mathematicians recognize, thanks to her contributions to mathematical analysis. Indeed, she was the first professional woman scientist to win international eminence in any field: the first woman doctorate in mathematics, the first to hold a chair in mathematics, the first to sit on the editorial board of a major scientific journal.

She was also an accomplished writer, a proponent of women's rights and education, a wife and mother in an unconventional marriage, and a champion of radical political causes in Russia and Western Europe—a friend and correspondent of Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, George Eliot, Kropotkin, Helmholtz, and Darwin. This sympathetic portrait of a remarkable woman will appeal to any reader, non-mathematicians and mathematicians alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813519630
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 03/01/1993
Series: Lives of Women in Science
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 346
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

ANN HIBNER KOBLITZ is associate professor of history at Hartwick College and founder of the Kovalevskaia Fund, which supports women scientists in the Third World. She has won the History of Science Society's prize for outstanding work on the history of women in science.

PNINA ABIR-AM, the series editor, is NSF Visiting Associate Professor in the History of Science at The Johns Hopkins University.
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