The Life in Papers of Sofie K.
- Authors
- Cade, Octavia
- Publisher
- Octavia Cade
- Tags
- monsters , contemporary fantasy , history , karl weierstrass , russian women , dark fantasy , women in science , russian scientists , mathematics , science history
- Date
- 2014-10-16T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.17 MB
- Lang
- en
When Sofie is a small girl, her Nanny teaches her nightmares. Witches, werewolves, the Black Death... Sofie is raised, screaming, on a surfeit of monsters. But when the monsters become real, brought to life and tumbled together into her own shadow-self, Sofie is forced to accept that she, with her unnatural precocity in mathematics, is a monster as well.
Part biography, part fantasy, this novella of maths and magical realism and monstrosity tells the story of the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891).