References for Kovalevskaya's biography


    Books:
    1. L S Grinstein and P J Campbell (eds.), Women of Mathematics (Westport, Conn., 1987),
    2. D H Kennedy, Little sparrow : a portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky (London, 1983).
    3. S V Kovalevskaia, A Russian childhood: Sofya Kovalevskaya (New York, 1987).
    4. A H Koblitz, A Convergence of Lives. Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Boston, 1983).

    Articles:

    1. M Gray, Women in Mathematics, American Mathematical Monthly, 79 (1972), 475-479.4.
    2. S A Antman, A Convergence of Lives. Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (review), American Mathematical Monthly, 93 (1986), 139-144.

    Web sites:

    1. MacTutor history
    2. R Cooke
    3. Agnes Scott College


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