Kovalevskaya Sofya (23 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, signed on the half-title by 'Bea' Stillman (dated 1979). xiii, 250 pp, 1 leaf (ads). Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. 'New English translation of a recent Russian edition based on the original manuscript. Volume also contains 'An Autobiographical Sketch', many notes and references, and a list of Kovalevskaya's scientific works. The Kochina article concentrates on the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem and the problem of a heavy rigid body rotating around a fixed point' (Dauben no. 2371). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. V knigu voshli osnovnye khudozhestvennye proizvedeniya vydayushchegosya matematika i pisatelnitsy Sofi Vasilevny Kovalevskoj: 'Vospominaniya detstva', povesti 'Nigilistka', 'Nigilist', ocherk 'M. E. Saltykov Shchedrin', a takzhe stikhotvoreniya.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Nihilist Girl | An MLA Translation | Sofya Kovalevskaya | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2002 | Modern Language Association of America | EAN 9780873527903 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. …

fester Einband. XIII, 251 S. Ln. *einzelne Bleistiftanstr. im Blattrand, sonst gutes Expl.*. In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor Kovalevskaya was already an international celebrity, and partly for the wrong reasons: less as the distinguished mathematician she actually was than as a 'mathematical lady'-a bizarre but fascinating phenomenon. Her book was an immediate success. She had written it in Russian, but its first publication was a translation into Swedish, the language of her adopted homeland, where it appeared thinly disguised as a novel under the title From Russian Ltfe: the Rajevski Sisters (Sonja Kovalevsky. Ur ryska lifvet. Systrarna Rajevski. Heggstrom, 1889). In the following year the book came out in Russia in two 'My gifted Mathematical Assistant Mr. Hammond exclaimed . 'Why, this is the first handsome mathematical lady I have ever seen!'' Letter to S. V. Kovalevskaya from].]. Sylvester, Professor of Mathe matics, New College, Oxford, Dec. 25, 1886. Sprache: Englisch.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Corrected edition. Editor-in-chief, Prof. M. V. Nechkin. Editing and comments by S. Y. Streich Moscow Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1961.Contact us for details or to request photos of available books. Delivery of this book could take longer than normal due to additional handling time before shipping, and no rush delivery options are available. Please let us know if you have a specific date by which you need to receive your order.SKUalb074eb8a73f7d4ac3.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. M XL 1960.Contact us for details or to request photos of available books. Delivery of this book could take longer than normal due to additional handling time before shipping, and no rush delivery options are available. Please let us know if you have a specific date by which you need to receive your order.SKUalbc4bef2f0a5f9943e.…

In modern half leather. Dust Jacket Condition: In very good condition. In modern half leather. First Hungarian edition. 128 p. Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya ( 1850 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world the first woman to obtain a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. According to historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz, Kovalevskaya was "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century".…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Her privileged world is radically changed by Alexander I's emancipation of the serfs. Vera first hopes to follow in the footsteps of Christian martyrs, but a neighboring landowner-a liberal professor fired from his position at Saint Petersburg University and exiled to his estate-opens her eyes to the injustice in Russia.A blend of social commentary and psychological observation, Nihilist Girl depicts the clash between a generation of youth who find their lives caught up by political action and a society unwilling to abandon its patriarchal traditions. 184 pp. Englisch.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Khrulov N. M Soviet Russia 1982.Contact us for details or to request photos of available books. Delivery of this book could take longer than normal due to additional handling time before shipping, and no rush delivery options are available. Please let us know if you have a specific date by which you need to receive your order.SKUalb8925e04295ed872e.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Her privileged world is radically changed by Alexander I's emancipation of the serfs. Vera first hopes to follow in the footsteps of Christian martyrs, but a neighboring landowner-a liberal professor fired from his position at Saint Petersburg University and exiled to his estate-opens her eyes to the injustice in Russia.A blend of social commentary and psychological observation, Nihilist Girl depicts the clash between a generation of youth who find their lives caught up by political action and a society unwilling to abandon its patriarchal traditions.…