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-- Fifty-two women who changed science and the world.[2015], Broadway Books Call No: 509.252 S971h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swabys profiles span centuries of thinkers and illustrate how each ones ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which theyre best known.
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2017., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Hidden F Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
![Hidden figures [DVD] (2016). Directed by Theodore Melfi.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Hidden figures [DVD] (2016). Directed by Theodore Melfi.")
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2016., General, William Morrow Call No: BLK 510.922 L479h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--Provided by publisher.
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2009., Picador Call No: Fic Oga Edition: 1st Picador ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: She is a housekeeper by trade, a single mom by choice, shy, brilliant, and starting a new tour of duty in the home of an aging professor. He is the professor, a mathematical genius, capable of limitless kindness and intuitive affection, but the victim of a mysterious accident that has rendered him unable to remember anything for longer than eighty minutes. Root, the housekeeper's ten-year-old son, combines his mother's sympathy with a sensitive curiosity all his own. Over the course of a few months in 1992, these three develop a profoundly affecting friendship, based on a shared love of mathematics and baseball, that will change each of their lives permanently.
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-- 10th muse.2019., Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Chu Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis despite cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
