Sandra DeLozier ColemanSandra DeLozier Coleman is a writer, artist and poet, who taught mathematics at colleges and universities for thirty years. She began translating the Kovalevskaya plays before software tools used today had been developed. She knew no Russian - not evn the sounds or order of the letters in the Russian alphabet - but she was determined to learn as much as she needed to know to be able to translate the poems and plays. She was an invited presenter at the International Symposium Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sofia Kovalevskaya in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2000, where she presented translations of the Kovalevskaya poems that matched the originals in both form and content. Back home, she continued work on translating the plays for more than twenty-years. The resulting book, Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet, begins with a chapter of engaging stories about her early efforts to translate. Readers will enjoy a collection of tales of her search for friends who spoke Russian, her travels to many countries where Kovalevskaya lived or visited, and the high and low points of participating in a Russian math conference. Coleman has been a frequent invited presenter at the Joint Mathematics Meetings poetry gatherings and has written more than one hundred math-related poems, including one published in a Scientific American article that has been republished in several languages. She has written poems about each of the sculptures in the book Helaman Ferguson: Mathematics in Stone and Bronze. Some of these appear in her new book, Swirling Symmetry, a very unique collection of thoughts and images through which Sandra DeLozier Coleman celebrates pattern and symmetry. Read More Read Less