Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.
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Gladys West, GPS math pioneer who reshaped navigation, dies at 95
Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...
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She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...
Gladys West, the mathematician who helped develop the basis for GPS, has died. She was 95. Dinwiddie County officials in ...
The Virginia native is credited with her work at the Naval Proving Ground, where she calculated ways to model the ...
This morning the world lost a pioneer in Dr Gladys West, she passed peacefully alongside her family and friends and is now in ...
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Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins has voiced strong doubts about large language models' utility in mathematical research, calling their answers "garbage" and "not mathematically correct." He ...
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