Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành, Phải phấn đấu vì bản thân mình thay vì để ý những chuyện nhỏ nhặt.. Tuy nhiên tuỳ vào từng loại sản phẩm hoặc phương thức, địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, ... Tránh ra, mọi người tránh ra.
Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens. Đừng lo, tôi sẽ không bao giờ phản bội bạn.
Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes, Tránh ra, mọi người tránh ra. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future. Ai mà biết được ?.
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. Sao lại nghĩ như vậy?.
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Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation, Bình minh sáng sớm quá là đẹp!. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff, Bình minh sáng sớm quá là đẹp!. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Oa! Thích quá đi!.
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space, Hãy lắng nghe ý kiến của tôi!. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P, Hãy lắng nghe ý kiến của tôi!. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner, Hãy lắng nghe ý kiến của tôi!.
