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

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-...

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Main Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016
New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]
Edition:First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition
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