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Non-Fiction

brush

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1. Is that the name of the book? Is there a connection to the movie...

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2024, 09:58 AM

Jul 2024

a few years back of 3 Black women mathematician/computer experts who worked for NASA in the early days of the US space program. Katherine Johnson correctly calculated by hand on a blackboard the trajectory of John Glenn's capsule back to Earth when the whole team on experts working on it, couldn't get it right.

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Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due [View all] cbabe Jul 2024 OP

Is that the name of the book? Is there a connection to the movie... brush Jul 2024 #1

Subtitle: cbabe Jul 2024 #3

N-o-o-o-o? I missed that. I did notice the cars from the era. brush Jul 2024 #4

I wrote a paper on this fellow as an undergrad EYESORE 9001 Jul 2024 #2