A review by lara_lleverino
Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematics by Laurie Wallmark

4.0

Fantastic living book about a woman in mathematics before women were allowed to go to University or teach at higher learning schools. It is a great story of the sacrifices a woman was willing to make to follow her giftedness. Very interesting! Some of the sacrifices she had to make make my heart hurt. She had to marry someone for the convenience to leave the country because she needed a man’s permission and her father wouldn’t grant it. She had to work initially as a non student and then as a teacher without pay. Hard for little girls to hear these days but maybe it makes them appreciate the sacrifices of those before them.