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THE MATHEMATICS OF SONJA KOVALEVSKY, Roger Cooke, NY, Spinger-Verlag, 1984, ISBN 0-387-96030-9

LOVE AND MATHEMATICS: SOFYA KOVALEVSKAYA, Pelageya Kochina,trans Michael Burov, Mir Publishers Moscow, 1985 revised from Russ ed. of 1981

LITTLE SPARROW: A PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA KOVALEVSKY, Don H. Kennedy, Ohio Univ. Press, Athens OH, 1983, ISBN 0-8214-0703-1

A RUSSIAN CHILDHOOD: SOFYA KOVALEVSKAYA, trans. and introd. by Beatrice Stillman, Springer-Verlag, NY-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1978, ISBN 0-387-90348-8

SONYA KOVALEVSKY: HER RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD, trans from Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. With biog. by Anna Carlotta Leffler trans from Swedish by AM Clive Bayley, and a Biographical note by Lily Wolffsohn, The Century Co., 1895,

SOUVENIRS SUR SOFIA KOVALEVSKAYA. Michele Audin. Calvage et Mounet. 2008. ISBN-13: 978-2916352053. (In French)