Julia: A Life in Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Reid, Constance

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0883855208 ISBN 13 : 9780883855201

Editeur : The Mathematical Association of America, 1997

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'This book, profusely illustrated with previously unpublished personal and mathematical memorabilia, brings together in one volume the prizewinning Autobiography of Julia Robinson by her sister, the popular biographer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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Mathematical Association of America
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0883855208
• ISBN 13: 9780883855201
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible