Euler

[Paolo Cavallo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RuudSaurins at aol.com>
To: <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Cc: <JontyTuffin at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Euler


>     A female mathematician working with Hilbert at Goettingen that might fit the
> description offered for Pynchon's heroine in his novel under construction would
> be Emmy Noether...

I keep thinking that Sofia Kovalevskaya would be a very nice subject for a Pynchon novel:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kovalevskaya.html

Paolo