I thought that would get me out of the country and out of the fields," she remembers. "I thought at first I needed to go to the city. West was born on Octoin a rural Virginia community of sharecroppers, but from an early age she had ambition to go beyond farm or factory work. "You’re thinking, ‘I’ve got to get this right.'" Although GPS is ubiquitous today, West says that in the moment, she wasn't thinking about the future: "When you’re working every day, you’re not thinking, ‘What impact is this going to have on the world?’" she says. However, her greatest accomplishment was the creation of an extremely detailed geodetic model of the Earth which became the foundation for the Global Positioning System. Gladys West, like the "human computers" at NASA who became famous with the book Hidden Figures, began her career by performing the complex hand calculations required before the computer age. Air Force's highest honors: induction into the Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame! Dr.
If you rely on your GPS for directions, you can thank a mathematician whose little-known contributions to the mathematical modeling of the Earth recently earned her one of the U.S. This trailblazing mathematician built the geodetic model of the Earth that became the foundation for GPS.
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