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Contents include: Making sense of math -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- Ada Lovelace Emmy Noether -- The Bletchley Park code-breakers -- Grace Hopper -- Katherine Johnson.
Summary: Before modern day desktops and laptops, there were human "computers" or mathematicians who handled complex calculations. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan were among the greatest computers, but their vital work at NASA has been largely left out of history. This immersive book explores the lives and accomplishments of ingenious women mathematicians and coders throughout history, such as Johnson, Jackson, and Vaughan.

Superwomen in STEM.