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Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya / by Michèle Audin
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: SpringerLink BücherVerlag: London : Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2011Beschreibung: Online-Ressource (IX, 284p. 97 illus., 47 illus. in color, digital)ISBN:- 9780857299291
- 510.92
- 510.9
- QA21-27
- QA29.K67
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Zusammenfassung: 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.Zusammenfassung: 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.PPN: PPN: 1651017638Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXMS | ZDB-2-SMA
Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; IMAGES; CHAPTER I:SOFYA'S CHRONOLOGY; Genealogy; Chronology; CHAPTER II:SOFYA'S NAMES; CHAPTER III:STORIES; The wallpaper story; The asymptotes; Story of the small sine; The pathetic story of the sonata; Story of the white marriage; The Bunsen story; Story of the ugly hat; Story of the Paris Commune; Story of the return to Russia and the suicide; Story of a friendship: Gösta, Karl and Sofya in Stockholm; Story of the mixed-up letters; Story of the Danish isles and pneumonia; Story of the burned letters
Saturn, Sputnik, the asteroids, the MoonDigressions, history, politics, books, bumps, degeneracy, Bryn Mawr, p-adic numbers and Fanny Mendelssohn, by way of conclusion; CHAPTER IV:THE THESIS OF SOFYA, THE CAUCHY-KOVALEVSKAYA THEOREM; The three memoirs of the thesis; A problem of Cauchy; Who proved the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem?; On rigor (sequel); Pause: The rings of Saturn; CHAPTER V:THE SOLID; What is it that makes a mathematical work interesting?; V.1. What is in the articles; V.1.1. An already classic problem; V.1.2. A new approach; Remarks.; V.1.3. Discovery of Sofya's case
V. 1.4. Solution, first phaseRemarks.; V.1.5. Solution, second phase; Remarks.; V.2. Topicality and modernity of this work; V.2.1. The motion is too complicated.; V.2.2. The Painlevé property.; V.2.3. Liouville integrability.; V.2.4. From whence all these curves?; V.2.5. What is the strange case?; V.2.6. Other integrable cases?; CHAPTER VI:A LETTER TO MITTAG-LEFFLER; Description of the letter; The letter; Remarks; The mathematics of the letter; CHAPTER VII:STOCKHOLM; Sofya's position in Stockholm; First act. Privatdozent.; Mittag-Leffler.; Second act. Associate Professor.
Third act. Full professor.Life in Stockholm-professional life; The salary issue; Life in Stockholm-public opinion; Life in Stockholm-Anne Charlotte Leffler; Life in Stockholm-friends; Birefringent media; CHAPTER VIII:A LETTER TO VOLLMAR; Why dedicate a chapter to this letter?; Two of Sofya's worlds; Whence comes the text?; Sofya's friends in Paris; Georg von Vollmar; Piotr Lavrov.; Maria Jankowska-Mendelson.; The letter; CHAPTER IX:THE BORDIN PRIZE AND SOFYA'S REPUTATION; Parisian life; On 24 December 1888 at the Academy; Commentary.; Her reputation, yesterday ... and today?; Clearing hurdles
Sofya's scientific independenceSofya or oblivion; Pause: Angels and fishbones; CHAPTER X: THE WOMEN OF MEN OF MATHEMATICS; The women in the index; Master and pupil; CHAPTER XI:I REMEMBER SOFYA, BY GEORGE, GÖSTA, JULIA AND ALL THE REST; I remember little Sofya in 1858, by Joseph Malevich, 1890; I remember the little sparrow before our marriage, by Vladimir Onufrievich Kowalevski, 1868; I remember my cousin in 1868, by Sofya Adelung, 1896; I remember Königsberger's Russian student, by Thomas Hirst, July 27th, 1869; I remember Mme. Kovilevsky, by George Eliot, 1869
I remember myself during one of my visits to George Eliot in 1869, by Sofya Kowalevski 1886
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