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

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Sofia Kovalevskaya
Age: 41 †
Born: 1850
Born: January 15
Died: 1891
Died: February 10
Academic
Communard
Mathematician
Novelist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Soul
Without
Mathematician
Math
Mathematics
Poet
Impossible

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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.
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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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