West was inducted into United States Air Force Hall of Fame in 2018 ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

The Virginia native is credited with her work at the Naval Proving Ground, where she calculated ways to model the ...

Dr. Gladys West, mathematician and pioneer behind GPS technology, has died at 95, leaving a lasting legacy in science and ...

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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The Riemann hypothesis is one of seven math problems that can win you $1 million from the Clay Mathematics Institute if you can solve it. British mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah claimed on Monday ...

Math anxiety is a real thing. In fact, women struggle with a fear of math more than their male counterparts. According to the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, that fear ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Gladys West, a mathematician who was part of the team that developed the global positioning system -- more commonly known as GPS -- died Jan. 17. She was 95. According to a social ...