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Sofya Kovalevskaya
(15 Jan 1850 - 10 Feb 1891)
Russian mathematician and novelist , known as Sofia, Sonya or Sophie, was the first major Russian female mathematician. When she became a full professor in 1889, she was the first female to accomplish this in Europe.
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Science Quotes by Sofya Kovalevskaya (3)
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
— Sofya Kovalevskaya
In a letter to Madame Schabelskoy, quoted in Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (1895), 316.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
— Sofya Kovalevskaya
In a letter to Madame Schabelskoy, quoted in Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (1895), 317.
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which equires a great amount of imagination.
— Sofya Kovalevskaya
In a letter to Madame Schabelskoy, quoted in Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (1895), 316.
