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A BIOGRAPHY
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She had sent it in the spring to the Academy in a
half-finished condition, with a request to be allowed to
send in a fuller definition of the problem before the
awarding of the prize. The short letters which I
received at this time show how feverishly she was at
work during the whole spring. A note from
Stockholm was addressed jointly to my brother and myself,
as we were then together in Italy.
Mr dear Friends : I have no time to write long letters. I
am working as hard as I can, and indeed as hard as any one
could. I do not yet know whether I shall have time to finish
my treatise or not. I have come to a difficulty which I cannot
yet get over.
Toward the close of May, while on the way to
London, she writes the following:
Beloved Anna Carlotta : Here I sit in Hamburg, waiting
for the train which is to take me to Flushing, and thence I go to
London. You can hardly imagine what a delight it is to me to
be mistress of myself and my thoughts once more, and not be
obliged to concentrate myself forcibly on one subject, as was the
case during the last few weeks.
During her visit to the Harz Mountains she often
complained of the restriction her work exercised on her
thoughts. There a group of younger mathematicians
had gathered round the old veteran
Weierstrass—Mittag Leffler, Hervitz, Hetner, and others. Of course,
among so many representatives of the same science,
much interesting conversation took place, and Sönya
grumbled that she was obliged to sit over her work
instead of enjoying this interchange of thought. She
was jealous of those who had more time at their
disposal to receive the inspiration imparted by the ideas
of their honored and beloved teacher, full as they were
of new light on the subject then occupying her mind.
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