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At 07:41 PM 9/10/2021, Jonathan Coopersmith wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">There are other stories about
other women unable to meet with professors and other professionals
because their clubs banned women -- e.g. Anna G. Perkins, <i>Yale Needs
Women</i>.</blockquote><br>
I'm working on a condensation for CACM of Turing Award winner Dana
Scott's recent oral history. In it he says this:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Close friends of [Alfred] Tarski
were Raphael and Julia Robinson. Julia did her thesis under Tarski, but
you can't imagine the difference for women between 1950 and today. Only
men were allowed in the Berkeley Faculty Club, so when Tarski suggested
at a lunch that there were many problems to be solved about rational
arithmetic, Julia was not present. Raphael suggested that to her later,
and that's how Julia's famous thesis eventually evolved, where she showed
the undecidability of the theory of rational numbers.</blockquote><br>
If all goes well, the condensation and a pointer to the full interview
should be published in about six months.<br><br>
Len<br><br>
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