Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Produits dérivés de films ou d’émission de télévision, Succès de librairie (documentaires), Biographies, Sciences et médecine (biographies), Femmes (biographies)
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Résumé
Before John Glenn orbited 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. The book follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. Bestseller. 2016.