Template:Are You Sure/February 10

• ... that mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya' showed talent at a young age; that physicist Nikolai Nikanorovich Tyrtov noted her unusual aptitude when she managed to understand his textbook by discovering for herself an approximate construction of trigonometric functions which she had not yet encountered in her studies; and that Tyrtov called her a "new Pascal" and suggested she be given a chance to pursue further studies?

• ... that