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

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

Shetterly, Margot Lee

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary
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 a... Read more
Contents
A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- Past Is Prologue -- The Double V -- Manifest Destiny -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Those Who Moved Forward -- Breaking the Barriers -- Home by the Sea -- The Area Rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of Atta... Read more
Format
text
Description
xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher
2016
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Peninsula Community Library 920 LEE in Adult Available
Fife Lake Public Library 920 SHE in Adult Available
Interlochen Public LIbrary Hist Black Shetterly in Adult Non-fiction Available

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