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After a friend’s death, how bitterly do we often
regret not having paid sufficient attention to
his or her words, not having put down all the
interesting things they said. There is the
more reason for me to deplore my negligence in
this case, as Sonia so often said to me: ‘You
are to write my biography after my death.’ But
in those moments of intimate conversation, who
realises that the day may actually come, when
we are left behind, and have nothing but the
memory of the close tie that bound us to the
deceased? Who does not expect a morrow to
come which will offer abundant opportunity for
filling up the blanks left in our conversation,
with its rapid transitions from one subject to
another?
In 1874, Sonia took her degree as Dr. phil. at
the University of Göttingen, for which she had
written three dissertations under the direction of
Weierstrass, of which one in particular—‘Zur
Theorie der partiellen Differentialgleichungen’
(Crelle’s Journal, vol. 80), is considered one of her
most remarkable works. By special licence, the
oral examination was pretermitted. In the
following letter to the Dean of the Faculty of
Philosophy at Göttingen, she explains in her own
characteristic way her motives for desiring the
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