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of knowledge here and there; he liked to
discuss mathematical problems, and would
frequently do so in Tania’s presence. It was he
who first talked to her about squaring the circle.
Of course, she did not understand anything, but
she was deeply impressed with this wonderful
mystical science, that seemed to open to its
adepts a world of miracles inaccessible to
the uninitiated. Another rather peculiar
circumstance had awakened her interest for
mathematics.
One of the walls in a room which was to be
repapered, had an intermediate covering of old
sheets of paper, which were full of mathematical
designs, dating from the time when Ivan
Sergejevitsch had studied this science in his youth.
These mysterious lines soon attracted Tania’s
curiosity; she would stand looking at them for
hours, and try to find the order in which the
sheets ought to have been put together. So by
degrees a number of formulas fastened
themselves in her memory; even the text seemed to
impress itself on her brain, though she did not
catch its meaning.
When many years later, in St Petersburg, as a
girl of fifteen, she took her first lessons in
differential calculus, her teacher was surprised to
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