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III
STUDIES WITH WEIERSTRASS. VISIT
TO PARIS DURING THE COMMUNE
One day Professor Weierstrass was rather
surprised to see a young lady present herself before
him, asking to be admitted as his pupil in
mathematics. The Berlin University was, and
still is, closed to women, but Sonia’s ardent
desire to be taught by the man who was
generally acknowledged to be the father of
modern mathematical analysis, made her apply
to him for private lessons.
Professor Weierstrass felt a certain distrust in
seeing this unknown female applicant; however,
he promised to try her, and gave her some of
the problems which he had set apart for the more
advanced pupils in the seminary for mathematics.
He felt convinced that she would not be able
to solve them, and forgot all about her, the more so
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