Rudy Lee Horne (1968 – 2017) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Morehouse College.

[6][3] He joined the University of Colorado Boulder for his postgraduate studies, earning a master's in physics in 1994 and in mathematics in 1996.

He completed his doctorate, Collision induced timing jitter and four-wave mixing in wavelength division multiplexing soliton systems, in 2001 which was supervised by Mark J.

[2] before working as postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Chris Jones.

[24] His handwriting is on screen during a scene at the beginning of the film where Katherine Johnson solves a quadratic equation.

[29][30][2] The University of Colorado Boulder established a Rudy Lee Horne Memorial Fellowship in his honour.