A Life in Mathematics
Hardback
Age range: + years old
Publication Date: 27/11/1996
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780883855201
- 9780883855201
- Category:
- History of mathematics
- Age range:
- + years old
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 27-11-1996
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Mathematical Association of America
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 136
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228x152x14mm
- Weight:
- 0.44kg
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