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III
studies under weierstrass—visits to paris during
the commune
PROFESSOR WEIERSTRASS, much to his
astonishment, one day found a young and beautiful
woman-student standing before him, asking hirn to
take her as a pupil in mathematics. The University
of Berlin was closed to female students then as now.
But S6nya’s enthusiastic desire to be directed in her
studies by the man regarded as the father of modern
mathematical analysis induced her to entreat him to
give her private lessons. The professor looked at his
unknown visitor with a certain amount of incredulity.
He promised to try her, and gave her some of the
problems to solve which he had set for some of his
more advanced students in mathematics. He was
convinced she would not succeed, and gave the matter no
further thought. Indeed, her appearance at the first
interview had made no impression on him whatever.
Badly dressed, as she always was at this period of her
life, she wore on this special occasion a bonnet which
quite hid her face and might have suited a woman
twice her age.
Professor Weierstrass himself told me later that he
had no idea at the time either of her extreme youth,
or of the highly intellectual expression of face which
usually predisposed every one in her favor.
A week later she came to him again, saying she had
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