Film about mathematicians

On 4 October 2017 the UoL Eleanor Glanville Center in conjunction with School of Mathematics and Physics organized a screening of “Hidden Figures“, a highly acclaimed film about black female mathematicians who worked at NASA on space programmes. The film is loosely based on true events and real protagonists.

Before the film, Prof Evgeny Khukhro gave a short introduction to the film, describing its mathematical background and some little known historical details about “human computers” who worked on atomic and space programmes in USA and USSR.