Julia: A Life in Mathematics (Spectrum)
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0883855208 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
There was also a prince at Berkeley, a brilliant young assistant professor named Raphael Robinson. 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. In high school Julia Bowman stood alone as the only girl - and the best student - in the junior and senior math classes. 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.. 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. Theirs was to be a marriage that would endure until her death in 1985. She had only one close friend and no boyfriends. At great sacrifice her widowed stepmother sent her to the University of California
The Mathematical Association of America has awarded Mrs.Reid its Plya Prize for her article about her sister,"The Autobiography of Julia Robinson," and its Beckenbach Prize for her most recent book, "The Search for E. T. L. Bell." For the latter she also received the 1993 Honorable Mention in Mathematics of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. J. According to Martin Gardner, "No one today has writte
The more Constance Reid, the better Janet Gallin Same review always of Constance Reid's books. I love them.. A beautiful book about a beautiful mathematical life Paul E. Oppenheimer (peo@erc.msstate.edu) Constance Reid has created a gem of a book about her sister. Beginning with the information that all royalties will go for mathematical scholarships at Julia's high school, through to Yuri Matijasevich's slightly technical essay, informed with equal parts of love for Julia and for Hilbert's Tenth Problem, there is a consistency of tone that shows Constance Reid to be a true artist of book creation. The tenacity, reticence. Constance Reid was a wonderful biographer (see her books on Hilbert and on Courant) Constance Reid was a wonderful biographer (see her books on Hilbert and on Courant). Here she wrote a touching account of the life of her sister, brilliant mathematician Julia Robinson. The time was, how should I put it, strange? Julia had achieved international fame and membership in the National Academy of Sciences BEFORE getting "normal" professor position.
'This book, profusely illustrated with previously unpublished personal and mathematical memorabilia, brings together in one volume the prizewinning Autobiography of Julia Robinson by her sister, the popular biographer Constance Reid, and three very personal articles about her work by outstanding mathematical colleagues.' L'Enseignement Mathématique