Julia Robinson
Birthday December 8, 1919
Birth Sign Sagittarius
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About
Mathematician who, most notably, worked on the Hilbert Tenth's problem. She proved that the fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games in a 1951 paper on game theory.
Before Fame
She attended UC Berkeley where she earned her Ph.D in 1948.
Trivia
She was featured in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in 2008.
Family Life
She married Raphael Robinson, who was a professor at Berkeley, in 1941.
Associated With
She was influenced by Stephen Hawking.
