Julia

　　In high school Julia Bowman stood alone asthe only girl - and the best student - in the junior and seniormath classes. She had only one close friend and no boyfriends.Although she was to learn that there are such people asmathematicians, her ambition was merely to get a job teachingmathematics in high school. At great sacrifice her widowedstepmother sent her to the University of California at Berkeley.But at Berkeley, in a society of mathematicians, she discoveredherself. There was also a prince at Berkeley, a brilliant youngassistant professor named Raphael Robinson. Theirs was to be amarriage that would endure until her death in 1985. Julia is thestory of Julia Bowman Robinson, the gifted and highly originalmathematician who during her lifetime was recognized in ways thatno other woman mathematician had ever been recognized. This unusualbook brings together in one volume the prizewinning Autobiographyof Julia Robinson by her sister, the popular mathematicalbiographer Constance Reid, and three very personal articles abouther work by outstanding mathematical colleagues.