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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces trailblazing mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani from her unexpected interest in geometry as a young girl to becoming the first woman to win the world's most prestigious honor in mathematics.
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.--
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
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 moon landing. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure that Apollo 13 returned home safely? As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps to 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mathematicians and Statisticians: A Practical Career Guide includes interviews with professionals in a field that has proven to be a stable, lucrative, and growing profession. If you're looking for a career as a statistician, college math professor, actuary, research analyst or economist this is the book for you--
Author
Series
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory! According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild, so she encourages Ada to study math. At first Ada thinks: Bleh! Who can get excited about a subject without pictures? But she soon falls in love with it. One day she encounters a mysterious machine, and from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words "shy" or "retiring", she's long since tossed them out the window. Besides, even if Hugh did grow to enjoy her company, it wouldn't matter. a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now, unable to run, ride, or even waltz, he could never court a woman like Sarah, much less dream of marrying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman whose brainpower changed our world. Katherine Johnson was a child who loved numbers, who went on to become one of the most important people in the history of space travel. Katherine proved that her knowledge and hard work were absolutely essential, when the odds were stacked against her. And when the time came, Katherine was the mathematician who sent the very first humans to the moon.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an Argentine math student discovers the smothered body of his landlady, conventional wisdom points to a family member with the most prosaic of motives. But then renowned logician Arthur Seldom, author of a book on the mathematics of serial killers, tells of a strange note left in his mailbox. The note indicates that the murder is the first in a series linked by a mysterious pattern. Each new death is accompanied by a different mathematical shape....
13) Hidden figures
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
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Description
Katherine Johnson was 97 years old in 2015, when the world caught up to her. That year, President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom-the nation's highest civilian honor-for her pioneering work decades earlier as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. The next year, a blockbuster movie, Hidden Figures, told the world the story of the West Area Computing unit, where Katherine worked as a human computer...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Known as "The Enchantress of Numbers" by many inventors and mathematicians of the 19th century, Ada Lovelace is recognized today as history's first computer programmer. Her work was an inspiration to such famous minds as Charles Babbage and Alan Turing. This is her story"--
19) The humans
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
20) Hidden figures
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
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