him, I decided that as a woman and a mathematician I had no alternative but to accept. I have always tried to do everything I could to encourage talented women to become research mathematicians. I found my service as president of the Society taxing but very, very satisfying." In 1982, Robinson gave the Noether Lecture of the Association for Women in Mathematics; her lecture was called Functional Equations in Arithmetic. Around this time she also was given the MacArthur Fellowship prize of $60,000. In 1985, she also became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Political work In the 1950s Robinson was active in local Democratic party activities. She was Alan Cranston's campaign manager in Contra Costa County when he ran for his first political office, state controller. Robinson was also a volunteer for Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaigns. Death and legacy In 1984, Robinson was diagnosed with leukemia, and she died in Oakland, California, on July 30, 1985. One of her sisters, Constance Reid, won the Mathematical Association of America's George Pólya Award in 1987 for writing the article "The Autobiography of Julia Robinson". The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, sponsored by the American Institute of Mathematics from 2013 to the present and by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute from 2007 to 2013, was named in her honor. George Csicsery produced and directed a one-hour documentary about Robinson titled Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem, that premiered at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego on January 7, 2008. Notices of the American Mathematical Society printed a film review and an interview with the director. The College Mathematics Journal also published a film review. Notes References External links "Julia Bowman Robinson", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College Julia Bowman Robinson on the Internet (mirror) 1919 births 1985 deaths Scientists from St. Louis University of California, Berkeley alumni 20th-century American mathematicians American logicians Number theorists MacArthur Fellows Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Presidents of the American Mathematical Society Game theorists Mathematicians from Missouri American women mathematicians 20th-century women mathematicians Deaths from leukemia 20th-century American women San Diego High School alumni