Julia Robinson (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Julia Robinson (1919-1985) was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a father who ran a machine tool and equipment business and a schoolteacher mother. Due to scarlet and rheumatic fevers, she missed two years of school as a child and progressed through four […]
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David Blackwell (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons David Blackwell (1919-2010) was born in Illinois to a father who worked in the railroad business and a homemaker mother. He recalled that, as a student in an integrated school, he was unaware of discrimination against African-Americans during his childhood. At the […]