Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

In 1874 Sofia Kovalevskaya presented three papers—on partial differential equations on the dynamics of Saturn's rings and on elliptic integrals —to the University of Göttingen as her doctoral dissertation. " Kovalevskaya participated in social movements and shared ideas of utopian socialism. Grinstein (Editor) Paul J.

She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky) for her academic publications. There are some alternative transliterations of her name.