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Sofia Kovalevskaya
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“It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.”
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“Many persons who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. Actually, however, this science requires great fantasy.”
Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
(1850 - 1891)
Full name: Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya