Describe at least three different facts or ideas about the early life of Dorothy Vaughan, the history of African-Americans in mathematics, the history of African-American women computers at NACA, and the history of segregation in the US that you find especially interesting in this week’s reading.
Reading About Hidden Figures, Part I Description Read the Author’s Note, Prologue, and Chapters 1—8 of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, Hidden Figures. In these opening chapters, we learn a great deal about the participation of African-American women in mathematical work at NACA, along with the federal policies that made such work possible. We meet Dorothy […]