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Math is sexy, yes it is…
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RIP indeed.
I’m glad her story was told while she still lived. I hope that her story does not die with her.
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Yes.
For most of us, we know about her from the movie, or the coverage around the movie. It is way better that it came out before she died so we know who she was, than after the fact.
It said she was 101 which seems almost payment for something. Ten years ago when Miep Gies died (she was one of the people that helped Anne Frank’s family in hiding), she was a few weeks short of turning 101, and I commented at the time that it was probably a reward for doing good.
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101 is a good run.
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Gone but not forgotten, to be sure.
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Wow, she made it to 101. As a mathematician, she must be glad she died in her prime.
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A good film for sure but adapted from the far more comprehensive bio of the same name which covers a lot more black women who worked for NACA/NASA.
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How many women are we talking about? Five or six?’” Shetterly remembers them saying. By the time she finished her book, she had uncovered nearly 50 black women who had worked as computers, mathematicians, engineers, or scientists at the Langley facility from 1943 to 1980, and believed that “20 more names can be shaken loose from the archives with more research.”
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RIP Katherine Johnson: The extraordinary NASA mathematician astronauts trusted over computers
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