Sofia Kovalevskaya quotes

Sofia Kovalevskaya was a pioneering Russian mathematician and writer, renowned for her groundbreaking contributions to analysis and partial differential equations. Her achievements broke barriers for women in science and academia across Europe. She became the first woman in modern Europe to hold a professorship in mathematics. Here are 3 of her quotes:

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya