Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose algorithms and data-mapping created the functions and laid the groundwork for ...

As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Gladys West, a mathematician who was part of the team that developed the global positioning system -- more commonly known as GPS -- died Jan. 17. She was 95. According to a social ...

Next time you plug an address into an app for directions or tag a social media post with your location, please take a second to thank Gladys West. She was an African American mathematician who helped ...

Dr. Gladys West, a former mathematician who was instrumental in the creation of GPS, was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame earlier this month. Considered one of our ...

Gladys West, the mathematician who helped develop the basis for GPS, has died. She was 95. Dinwiddie County officials in Virginia announced West's death on Tuesday, Jan. 20, in a statement on social ...