Title: Beyond the limit
Description: Determined to free herself and her sister from oppressive conventions that complicate their quest for an education, nineteenth-century would-be mathematician Sofya arranges their marriages so that they can study abroad.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Marriage, Women mathematicians, Fiction, historical, general, Marriage, fiction
Places: Russia
People: S. V. Kovalevskai︠a︡ (1850-1891), Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ (1842-1883)
Time periods: 1801-1917