01766cam a2200349 4500 337219712 TxAuBib 20160923120000.0 160511s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016021050 9780062363596 006236359X DLC eng DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Lee Shetterly, Margot. Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly. 1st ed. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] xviii, 346 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-328) and index. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2016. Publishers Weekly Annex. "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."--Dust jacket. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20160923. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees. Women mathematicians United States. Women mathematicians. African American women. Space race. African American mathematicians.