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I have been told that some people think that I was blind not to see the solution myself when I was so close to it. On the other hand, no one else saw it either. There are lots of things, just lying on the beach as it were, that we don't see until someone else picks one of them up. Then we all see that one.

Julia Robinson

I would say that my stubbornness has been to a great extent responsible for whatever success I have had in mathematics. But then it is a common trait among mathematicians.

Julia Robinson

What I really am is a mathematician. Rather than being remembered as the first woman this or that, I would prefer to be remembered, as a mathematician should, simply for the theorems I have proved and the problems I have solved.

Julia Robinson

I think that I have always had a basic liking for the natural numbers. To me they are the one real thing. We can conceive of a chemistry that is different from ours, or a biology, but we cannot conceive of a different mathematics of numbers. What is proved about numbers will be a fact in any universe.

Julia Robinson

Julia Robinson

Julia Robinson

Born: December 8, 1919

Died: July 30, 1985 (aged 65)

Bio: Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's tenth problem.

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