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APPENDICES
317
mediately begins to incline to observations on life, to narrative;
and, vice versa, everything in life begins to appear insignificant
and uninteresting, and only the eternal, immutable laws of
science attract me. It is very possible that I might have
accomplished more in either of these lines if I had devoted myself
exclusively to it; nevertheless I cannot give up either of them
completely." (From Ellen Key’s "Biography of the Duehess di
Cajanello.")—! F. H.
APPENDIX I
Her work was entitled "On a Particular Case of the Problem
of Rotation of a Heavy Body around a Fixed Point." The prize
was doubled (to five thousand francs), on account of the " quite
extraordinary service rendered to mathematical physics by this
work," which the Academy of Sciences pronounced "a
remarkable work." The competing dissertations were signed by
mottoes, not with names, and the jury of the Academy made the
award in utter ignorance that the winner was a woman. Her
dissertation was printed, by order of the Academy, in the
"Mémoires des Savants Étrangers." In the following year
Madame Kovalévsky received a prize of fifteen hundred kroner
from the Stockholm Academy, for two works connected with the
foregoing. ("S. Y. Kovalévsky," published by the
Mathematical Society of the University of Moscow.)—I. F. H.
APPENDIX J
Madame Kovalévsky calls herself "Tånya Raevsky"in the
Swedish translation of her "Recollections of Childhood."—
I. F. H.
APPENDIX K
According to what Mittag Leffler says, Sönya had not thought
of abandoning scientific study entirely. In the last conversation
she had with him, the day before she was taken with her short
and fatal illness, she told him of a plan for a new mathematical
work, which she believed would be the most important she had
ever written. According to her usual manner, considering
herself gifted with second sight in all intellectual things, she said
she had divined the solution of certain profound enigmas, which
would open out a new path in the field of thought.
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