Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95

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Gladys West went from a one-room schoolhouse in rural Virginia to college and to working on planetary motions and modeling. "I really did like geometry," she said of her high school years. "I fell in love with that."

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.

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Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95

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