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

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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Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician who played a pivotal role in birthing GPS technology, passed away on Saturday at the age ...

Scott Simon talks with math guy Keith Devlin about the work of Grigori Perelman. Perelman is a mathematician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia, who may have solved a ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Gladys West, a mathematician who was part of the team that developed the global positioning system -- more ...

Mathematician Dr Gladys West, whose work helped lay the foundation for modern global positioning systems (GPS), has died at ...