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Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Katherine Johnson was one of the best mathematicians in the history of the United States. Before her math skills helped send the first American astronauts safely into space, she was a smart and curious girl who loved to learn new things about the world around her. She studied hard in school and became one of the first Black women hired by NASA to figure out difficult math problems. This book helps kids explore how Katherine went from being a young...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War Il, when the brand-new minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as "computers"--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But they were never interested in developing weapons--their hearts lay in...
Author
Series
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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Shares the story of the pioneering African American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped calculate America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, NASA relied on human computers. These skilled women did calculations by hand. While astronauts and their accomplishments were well known, human computers often worked behind the scenes. Hidden Heroes: The Human Computers of NASA explores the legacy of NASA's human computers.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, at forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Half-mad with grief, Katya turns to the unfinished notes for her mother's last textbook, hoping to find guidance in mathematical concepts. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11"--
"As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The true story of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian girl whose creativity and love of stories helped her and the world see math in a new way, and who was the only woman ever to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 [mission]. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure that Apollo 13 returned safely home? As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of dishes and spoons she washed in the kitchen sink, everything! Boundless, curious, and excited by calculations, young Katherine longed to know as much as she could about math, about the universe. From Katherine's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The twelve scientists who are profiled here are women from all sorts of backgrounds who are currently rocking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each of them has a different story to tell about how she got to where she is today, but the one thing they have in common is that they are truly wonder women of science. Around the world there are many more women doing incredible work and breaking new ground in STEM fields--not to mention...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jean Bartik was one of the first programmers of the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). Learn how her love of math led her to work for the Army and then help develop the ENIAC."--
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Stella Lane cree que las matemáticas son lo único que funciona en el universo. Utiliza algoritmos para predecir compras, un trabajo que le ha proporcionado más dinero del que sabe gastar y menos experiencia en el apartado de las citas que la media de cualquier treintañera. No le ayuda tener Asperger y que besar le recuerde a un pez piloto limpiando los dientes de un tiburón. Por eso contrata al despampanante gigoló Michael Phan. Mitad sueco,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
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