Originally one of the first black women hired at Langley as a human computer, Hoover would eventually become a published physicist and mathematician.

[2] After teaching for a few years in Georgia, Hoover received her master's degree in mathematics from Atlanta University in 1943, for the thesis "Some Projective Transformations and Their Applications."

[3] She was a part of a class of women, both black and white, hired to work as "human computers" and aid the development of aeronautical technology in the second World War.

[1] By 1946, Hoover was completing calculations and was widely relied on by Jones; her work was increasingly recognized as important to the aeronautics field.

Today, every aircraft involved in supersonic speed utilizes her design concepts, including commercial planes, fighter jets, and the space shuttle.

[6] A portion of her 1954 master's thesis, "On Estimates of Error in Numerical Integration," was included in the Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science the following year.

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race (First ed.).