Editing Julia Robinson (section)

===Game theory ===
During the late 1940s, Robinson spent a year or so at the [[RAND Corporation]] in Santa Monica researching game theory. Her 1949 technical report, "On the Hamiltonian game (a traveling salesman problem),"<ref name="Robinson1949">{{cite report |last1=Robinson |first1=Julia |title=On the Hamiltonian game (a traveling salesman problem) |date=5 December 1949 |type=RAND report RM-303 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0204961.pdf |access-date=2024-04-15 |publisher=The Rand Corporation |location=Santa Monica, California|via=DTIC|language=en}}</ref> is the first publication to use the phrase "[[travelling salesman problem]]".<ref name="Schrijver2005">[[Alexander Schrijver]]'s 2005 paper "On the history of combinatorial optimization (till 1960). Handbook of Discrete Optimization ([[Karen Aardal|K. Aardal]], [[George Nemhauser|G.L. Nemhauser]], R. Weismantel, eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 1–68.[http://homepages.cwi.nl/~lex/files/histco.ps PS], [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~lex/files/histco.pdf PDF]</ref> Shortly thereafter she published a paper called "''An Iterative Method of Solving a Game''" in 1951.<ref name="NAS Memoir">
{{cite encyclopedia|last=Feferman|first=Solomon|author-link=Solomon Feferman|encyclopedia=Biographical Memoirs|title=Julia Bowman Robinson, 1919–1985|url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/robinson-julia.pdf|access-date=2008-06-18|year=1994|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|volume=63|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-0-309-04976-4|pages=1–28}}
</ref>{{Rp|7}} In her paper, she proved that the [[fictitious play]] dynamics converges to the [[mixed strategy]] [[Nash equilibrium]] in two-player [[zero-sum game]]s. This was posed by [[George W. Brown (academic)|George W. Brown]] as a prize problem at [[RAND Corporation]].<ref name="Julia" />{{Rp|59}}