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and enrolled at a polytechnic institute. In 1873 the Russian czar decreed all Russian women studying in Zürich had to return to Russia or face the consequences. Litvinova was one of the few to ignore the decree and she remained to continue her studies, earning her baccalaureate in Zürich in 1876. She
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When Litvinova returned to Russia, she was denied university appointments because she had defied the 1873 recall. She taught at a women's high school and supplemented her meager income by writing biographies of more famous mathematicians such as Kovalevskaya and
20: 61:'s husband), would not allow her to travel to Europe to study at the universities there. Thus, Litvinova started to study with Strannoliubskii, who had also privately tutored Kovalevskaya. 264: 90:. After retiring, Litvinova moved to the countryside in 1917. Although no subsequent records have been found, it is believed that she must have died soon after, possibly in the 259: 160: 274: 127: 54: 91: 269: 181: 197: 165: 254: 249: 221: 193: 155: 151: 233: 111: 70: 58: 115: 74: 49:
as Elizaveta Fedorovna Ivashkina, she completed her early education at a women's high school in
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218:"Elizaveta Litvinova", Biographies of Women Mathematicians 53:. In 1866 Elizaveta married Viktor Litvinov, who, unlike 64:
In 1872, as soon as her husband died, Litvinova went to
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Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook
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mathematician
pedagogue
czarist Russia
Saint Petersburg
Vladimir Kovalevsky
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Zürich
University of Bern
Ludwig Schläfli
Aristotle
Russian famine of 1921–1922
Koblitz, Ann Hibler
"Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova (1845–1919?)"
ISBN
978-0-313-24849-8




Robertson, Edmund F.
"Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova"
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews
Elisabetha von Litwinowa-Iwaschkina
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Riedtmann, Christine
"Wege von Frauen: Mathematikerinnen in der Schweiz"
"Elizaveta Litvinova", Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Agnes Scott College

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