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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis despite cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
3) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying thriller that opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. It's 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, is found dead in his home: it is widely assumed...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom&;the nation&;s highest civilian honor&;for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA&;s first flights into space. Her contributions to America&;s space program were celebrated in a blockbuster and Academy-award nominated movie.
In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
37 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Hungary during WWI, Erdos tried school but chafed at the rules and convinced his mother that he should study at home. He was fascinated by numbers from an early age, and by the time he was 20, he was known as The Magician from Budapest. Unable to do common tasks such as cooking, laundry, or driving, he spent his adult life flying around the world, staying with other mathematicians, and working collaboratively on challenging math problems....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A "skillful, literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the lesser-known story of the scientific contributions of a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-20th century, tracing their collection of star observations captured nightly on glass photographic plates that enabled extraordinary discoveries.
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
99 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known as the "bombe" which descrambled the German navy's messages and saved countless lives and millions in British goods and merchandise. Despite his heroics, however,...
16) Dr. No: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.
17) The maniac
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the boundary-breaking mathematician, Katherine Johnson, reveals how her love of mathematics started at a young age led her to a job at NASA where she calculated the course of moon landings and helped save the Apollo 13 mission.