Hidden figures the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these pr...
| Main Author: | Lee Shetterly, Margot. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
William Morrow,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- A door opens
- Mobilization
- Past is prologue
- The double V
- Manifest destiny
- War birds
- The duration
- Those who move forward
- Breaking barriers
- Home by the sea
- The area rule
- Serendipity
- Turbulence
- Angle of attack
- Young, gifted, and black
- What a difference a day makes
- Outer space
- With all deliberate speed
- Model behavior
- Degrees of freedom
- Out of the past, the future
- America is for everybody
- To boldly go.