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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Do you enjoy playing around with numbers and shapes? You may want to become a mathematician. Mathematicians train their brains to think in a logical way to look for patterns. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like a mathematician too"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the boundary-breaking mathematician, Katherine Johnson, reveals how her love of mathematics started at a young age led her to a job at NASA where she calculated the course of moon landings and helped save the Apollo 13 mission.
6) A beautiful mind: a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"NASA computer scientist Katherine Johnson and her two daughters tell the story of how she overcame racial barriers to play an integral role during the American space program's early days"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
104 pages : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella...
12) Alan Turing
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early discoveries -- Universal Turing machine -- Unraveling the enigma -- Beyond Bletchley Park -- Building a brain -- Mathematical biology -- Poison apple -- Alan Turing's legacy.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.