Many people spend decades writing about an important figure, who has impacted not the life of a single person but an entire race. Writing about this important of a person is really tiresome and it takes sometime to process the fact that one has been endowed with this amazing opportunity. For me, It all began with a simple google search of Katherine Johnson's name. Portrait of Katherine Johnson via. NASA I like to view this as a simple google search that changed the way I perceived the world of Mathematics. An African-American lady who was rejected the first time she applied to NACA ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was later changed to NASA ) changed the way I view Mathematics. Katherine Johnson was simply put an extraordinaire. She was an amazing Mathematician who helped NASA lay it's foundations for Space Travel and also is an inspiration to many and one of the very few awardee of Presidential Medal of Freedom ( ...
