Talk:Julia Robinson

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Appropriate link?
I'm wondering if it would be appropriate to add a link to a free event I'm organizing that is named in honor of Julia Robinson. Perhaps as an external link? My page already links to a couple sources on biographical information.

Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival is the link.

Thanks, Joshuazucker 22:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for asking on the talk page first! While I think this looks like a great event, I'm not sure it's all that relevant to the subject of the article.  That is, I don't think many people researching Julia Robinson would learn much from your website about the topic they are researching.  You're welcome to solicit other opinions, however. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 05:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 😶‍🌫️ 50.172.79.50 (talk) 17:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

IQ score
I feel there should be a section dedicated to her testing at an average IQ, if only for the sake of being interesting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.16.113.3 (talk) 16:28, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It probably wouldn't amount to more than a sentence or two. This is what it says on page 15 of her sister's book (Reid, Constance (1996). Julia: A life in mathematics. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 0-88385-520-8)
 * We had all been given an intelligence test — I think it was the Otis — while we were still in junior high school. Constance had done very well on it but I,, being a slower reader and unaccustomed to taking tests, had done poorly. She found out later, when she was herself a teacher at the high school, that my I.Q. was recorded as 98, two points below average. The result was that even after we were in college,.Constance, who took her classes lightly while devoting herself to the school paper, was being called into the office to find out why she wasn't doing better while I was being called in to find out why I was able to perform "above ability".
 * I'm not sure it's discussed in any other sources, so that may be all there is.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 17:43, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Project
Hi guys!

I'm new to Wikipedia. I'm a math major in California and I'm working on Julia Robinson's article for a project. So if I edit something you don't like, please just let me know! My goal right now is to get her article to be similar in length/style as a male mathematician's article such as Paul Dirac. So essentially, I won't be deleting anything written, just moving stuff around and adding to it.

Thank you,

Karen Karenmsous (talk) 19:10, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review
This article is looking great! The layout of this article flows nicely and makes the information easy to read and understand. I would suggest condensing the sections 'background and education' with 'personal life’, the information seems to go together. I took notes from the info box on this page to create a similar one on the page I’m creating. Hshiozak (talk) 05:40, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Robinson's wish on how to be remembered
According to various biographies (see, for instance, [|here]), Robinson is quotes as follows: "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"

I'm wondering whether we should take this into account when talking about her election to NAS and AMS. If not, I believe it should at least be mentioned.