References for Sofia Kovalevskaya

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  1. E A Kramer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. R Bölling (ed.), Briefwechsel zwischen Karl Weierstrass und Sofja Kovalevskaja (Berlin, 1993).
  2. R Cooke, The mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya (New York, 1984).
  3. D H Kennedy, Little sparrow : a portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky (London, 1983).
  4. A H Koblitz, A Convergence of Lives. Sofia Kovalevskaia : Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Boston, 1983).
  5. A H Koblitz, A Convergence of Lives. Sofia Kovalevskaia : Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (New Brunswick N.J., 1993) (new edition of 1983 book).
  6. P Kochina, Sofya Vassilevna Kovalevskaya (Moscow, 1957).
  7. S V Kovalevskaia, A Russian childhood : Sofya Kovalevskaya (New York, 1987).
  8. K Rappaport, S Kovalevsky: A Mathematical Lesson, Amer. Math. Monthly 98 (10) (1981).
  9. O Stamfort, Kovalevskaya, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983).

Articles:

  1. R Bölling, ... Deine Sonia: A reading from a burned letter, The Mathematical Intelligencer 14 (3) (1992), 24-30.
  2. L S Grinstein and P J Campbell (eds.), Women of Mathematics (Westport, Conn., 1987), 103-113.
  3. A H Koblitz, Sofia Kovalevskaia and the Mathematical Community, The Mathematical Intelligencer 6 (1984), 20-29.
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