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The four years’ work that now ensued with
Professor Weierstrass had a decisive influence
on her whole scientific career. Her productions
are based upon his, they are applications or
developments of his maxims.
The lessons were carried on in this way: he
visited her once a week, and every Sunday
evening she came to him. Her husband, who
had accompanied her to Berlin, left her alone
there with her fellow-student from Heidelberg,
but now and then he came and visited her.
Their relations were still very peculiar, and
caused some wonder in the Weierstrass family,
where the husband never appeared, in spite of
the familiar footing on which his wife stood
with all its members. Sonia never mentioned
him, never introduced him to Weierstrass, but
on Sunday evenings, after her lesson, he would
ring the door bell and say to the servant: ‘Will
you tell Madame Kovalevsky that a carriage is
waiting for her at the door.’ Sonia always felt
rather awkward at the unnatural relations in
which they stood to one another. One of the
Heidelberg professors said that he once met
Kovalevsky at her house, and that she introduced
him as a ‘relative.’
Her friend gives the following description of
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