Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math
Jeannine Atkins
This collection profiles seven women whose work drew on mathematics. It includes Caroline Herschel's comet discoveries and star maps, Florence Nightingale's statistical charts, Hertha Marks Ayrton's engineering and inventions, Marie Tharp's ocean-floor maps, and Katherine Johnson's NASA work. Other profiles feature Edna Lee Paisano's census work and Vera Rubin's evidence for dark matter. Individual poems connect their lives and contributions.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.
