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first cat,ti to sweden
DURING Sönya’s stay in St. Petersburg in 1876,
she had made an acquaintance which was to have
a decisive influence on her future life. Mittag Leffler,
a pupil of Weierstrass, had heard a great deal of
Sonya’s unusual talent from their mutual teacher, and
came to see her.
On this occasion Sönya had no premonition of the
influence he would afterward exert on her life. She only
felt rather unwilling to receive her visitor when he was
announced. She had at that time given up all studies,
and did not even correspond with her former master.
During conversation, however, her former interests
were aroused. She showed so much acuteness of
judgment and quickness of perception in the most
difficult mathematical problems that her visitor felt
almost confounded when he looked at the girlish face
before him. The impression she made on him as a
woman-thinker was so strong that several years later,
when he became Professor of Mathematics in the new
University of Stockholm, one of his first steps was to
induce the authorities to appoint " Fru " Kovalévsky
as a privat-docent.
Sönya already, a few years before her husband’s
death, had expressed a wish to become a teacher at a
university. Professor Mittag Leffler, who was greatly
interested in the university recently established m his
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