Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya

Michèle Audin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2011
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85729-928-4 (ISBN)

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Sofia Kovalevskaya was a brilliant and determined young Russian woman of the 19th century who wanted to become a mathematician and who succeeded, in often difficult circumstances, in becoming arguably the first woman to have a professional university career in the way we understand it today. This memoir, written by a mathematician who specialises in symplectic geometry and integrable systems, is a personal exploration of the life, the writings and the mathematical achievements of a remarkable woman. It emphasises the originality of Kovalevskaya’s work and assesses her legacy and reputation as a mathematician and scientist. Her ideas are explained in a way that is accessible to a general audience, with diagrams, marginal notes and commentary to help explain the mathematical concepts and provide context.

This fascinating book, which also examines Kovalevskaya’s love of literature, will be of interest to historians looking for a treatment of the mathematics, and those doing feminist or gender studies.

Michèle Audin; Professor of Mathematics at IRMA, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, France

Sofya’s chronology.- Sofya’s names.- Stories.- The thesis of Sofya, the Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem.- The Solid.- A letter to Mittag-Leffler.- Stockholm.- A letter to Vollmar.- The Bordin prize and Sofya’s reputation.- The women of Men of mathematics.- I remember Sofya, by George, Gösta, Julia and all the rest.- I too remember Sofya.- Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.8.2011
Zusatzinfo	IX, 284 p.
Verlagsort	England
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	19th century mathematics • Sofya Kovalevskaya
ISBN-10	0-85729-928-X / 085729928X
ISBN-13	978-0-85729-928-4 / 9780857299284
Zustand	Neuware