Daily Archives: October 4, 2021

Gladys West Modelled the Earth So That We Can Have GPS

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Rashid Faridi

The name Gladys West is probably unfamiliar, but she was part of creating something you probably use often enough: GPS. You wouldn’t think a child who grew up on a sharecropping farm would wind up as an influential mathematician, but … Continue reading →

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