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The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America?s greatest achievements in space?a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.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 problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South?s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America?s .
Book Details :
Author : Margot Lee Shetterly
Pages : 368 pages
Publisher : William Morrow
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0062363603
ISBN-13 : 9780062363602
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