內容簡介
In high school Julia Bowman stood alone as
the only girl - and the best student - in the junior and senior
math classes. She had only one close friend and no boyfriends.
Although she was to learn that there are such people as
mathematicians, her ambition was merely to get a job teaching
mathematics in high school. At great sacrifice her widowed
stepmother sent her to the University of California at Berkeley.
But at Berkeley, in a society of mathematicians, she discovered
herself. There was also a prince at Berkeley, a brilliant young
assistant professor named Raphael Robinson. Theirs was to be a
marriage that would endure until her death in 1985. Julia is the
story of Julia Bowman Robinson, the gifted and highly original
mathematician who during her lifetime was recognized in ways that
no other woman mathematician had ever been recognized. This unusual
book brings together in one volume the prizewinning Autobiography
of Julia Robinson by her sister, the popular mathematical
biographer Constance Reid, and three very personal articles about
her work by outstanding mathematical colleagues.
the only girl - and the best student - in the junior and senior
math classes. She had only one close friend and no boyfriends.
Although she was to learn that there are such people as
mathematicians, her ambition was merely to get a job teaching
mathematics in high school. At great sacrifice her widowed
stepmother sent her to the University of California at Berkeley.
But at Berkeley, in a society of mathematicians, she discovered
herself. There was also a prince at Berkeley, a brilliant young
assistant professor named Raphael Robinson. Theirs was to be a
marriage that would endure until her death in 1985. Julia is the
story of Julia Bowman Robinson, the gifted and highly original
mathematician who during her lifetime was recognized in ways that
no other woman mathematician had ever been recognized. This unusual
book brings together in one volume the prizewinning Autobiography
of Julia Robinson by her sister, the popular mathematical
biographer Constance Reid, and three very personal articles about
her work by outstanding mathematical colleagues.