Sofia Kovalevskaya Quote

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing anymore about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.


Translated by Isabel f. Hapgood, In Lily Wolffsohn, Sonya Kovalevsky: Her Recollections of Childhood (p. 316)


Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing anymore about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing anymore about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing anymore about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing anymore about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.