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Euler’s Method

Sun, 15 Jan 2017, 05:08 PM (-06:00) Creative Commons License

They stood there looking at the blackboard, craning their necks, staring at the equations and the calculations and the trajectories. The white men in their white shirts and skinny early 60s ties and the colored computer Katherine Goble Johnson.

They puzzled over math they didn’t know — elliptical to parabolic trajectories. And then her eyes went wide.

“Euler’s method,” she whispered and ran off to get a book.

“Euler’s method? That’s ancient!” one of the others said.

And… well you’ll just have to see the movie (or read the book).



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