
This book is the result of a decision taken in 1980 to begin studying the history of mathematics in the nineteenth century. I hoped by doing it to learn some- thing of value about Kovalevskaya herself and about the mathematical world she inhabited. Having been trained as a mathematician,...

This book is the result of a decision taken in 1980 to begin studying the history of mathematics in the nineteenth century. I hoped by doing it to learn some- thing of value about Kovalevskaya herself and about the mathematical world she inhabited. Having been trained as a mathematician,...