Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race /

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.

"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...

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Main Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
Edition:First William Morrow paperback edition.
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Women mathematicians > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American mathematicians > Biography.
Space race.
African American mathematicians.
African American women.
Employees.
Women mathematicians.
United States.
Biographies.
Biography.

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