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Viena Stastna - Math caught a wedding bouquet. Young years of Sonja Kovalevskaja
| VIENA STASTNA, Department of Mathematics, University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 |
| Math caught a wedding bouquet. Young years of Sonja Kovalevskaja |
Sonja and her ``nihilist'' sister--girls of sixties. University classes only for married women. Ph.D. from Gottingen after private lessons with Weierstrass. As a young widow--a position at Stockholm University. 1888--Prix Bordin from Paris Academy of Sciences. Dead at 41.
