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Dr. Gladys West: Before Google Maps, This Mathematical Genius Changed How The World Finds Its Way
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Dr. Gladys West: Before Google Maps, This Mathematical Genius Changed How The World Finds Its Way
Before Google Maps, Waze, or even the first satellite navigation system, there was Dr Gladys West, a quiet mathematical genius from rural Virginia who changed how the world finds its way. Born in 1930 to a sharecropping family, West grew up picking tobacco and corn under the Southern sun before earning a scholarship to Virginia State University, one of the few historically Black colleges offering advanced math degrees at the time. What began as …
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