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Sofia Kovalevskaya

Leigh Ellison

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Early Life
  3. Teen Years
  4. Berlin and Weierstrass
  5. Cauchy-Kovalevskaya Theorem
  6. Abelian Integrals
  7. Saturn's Rings
  8. Time off
  9. Married Life
  10. The Lamé Equations
  11. Diverging Paths
  12. Professorship and Mittag-Leffler
  13. French Mathematics
  14. A Short Break
  15. Her Remaining Years
  16. Her other work
  17. Rumours/Problems/Barriers
  18. In conclusion...

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