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acuteness of thought, such quickness of
perception in the most intricate mathematical
questions, that her visitor felt almost bewildered,
when he looked at the youthful face before him.
The impression he had received of her distinction
as a female thinker was so deep, that several
years later, when he was called to the
professorship of mathematics at the recently-founded
Stockholm University, one of his first steps was
to send in a petition that Madame Kovalevsky
might be nominated lecturer under him.
A few years before the death of her husband,
Sonia had expressed a wish to obtain a
situation as lecturer at some university. Mittag
Leffler, warmly interested in the new centre of
scientific study in his native town, as well as
in the woman-question, eagerly desired to shed
glory on the new university, by attaching to it
the first really great female name in his science.
Already in 1881, with regard to these prospects,
Sonia had written the following lines to Mittag
Leffler :—
‘Berlin, Bellevuestrasse,
‘July 8th, 1881.
‘. . . Nevertheless, I thank you most heartily
for your wish that I may be called to Stockholm,
and for all your efforts in the matter. As for
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