TFW Karl Weierstrass realized that Sonya Kovalevskaya was a mathematical genius, as told by Alice Munro in her short story "Too Much Happiness". (We are going to discuss this story in my "math for liberal arts" class.)pic.twitter.com/hJvjQBDsdK
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I suggest you read The Dispossessed (technically it's a theoretical physicist, but still) and the collection Story of your life for more realistic descriptions.
Thanks for the suggestions, Prof. Barbara! I’m unfamiliar with the stories. Who wrote them?
I just read it and am having second thoughts about using it for this class. Going to use Hidden Figures as a basis for discussion instead
What purpose do you aim to achieve through the discussion you hope to engender? And may I humbly propose that you might want to consider using Constance Reid's superb biography of Hilbert? It is a rare example of genuinely sympathetic and informed account of a mathematical life.
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