Subject: Re: [HM] Sofia Kovalevskaya
From: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis@otenet.gr)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 01:49:43 EST
Heinz Luenburg posted the following books on Sofia Kovalevskaya:
> Tollmien, Cordula:
> Fuerstin der Wissenschaft. Die Lebensgeschichte der Sofja
> Kowalewskaja. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz-Verlag 1995.
> Hibner Koblitz, Ann: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer,
> Revolutionary, Boston, Basel, Stuttgart. first ed. 1987, second ed.
> 1992.
Two more:
Pelageya Kochina: Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya.
Mir Publishers Moscow 1985.
We read in the cover:
"This is fascinating and highly documented story about a fascinating person
written by another fascinating person. [...]
The Russian edition of this book ran into 117,000 copies and is sold out."
Cooke, Roger: The Mathematics of Sofya Kovalevskaya.
New York etc.: Springer-Verlag, 1984.
E. Unger writes about this book (in his review in Zbl):
<quote>
"Mathematics" in the title should be written in boldface. The author added
a feature to this biography, rarely found in the literature. Integrated in
this book, he indicates the state of the art at a certain period, the general
direction of research in that time, the starting point and S. Kovalevskaya's
original contribution to mathematics.
</quote>
Antreas
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