Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Assumptions. I resonated strongly with a scene in the movie in which mathematician Katherine Johnson was assumed to be in the ...

The new movie Hidden Figures (which is currently playing in ... Entire programs and ideas and concepts simply couldn’t exist if we were still doing math exclusively with pencil and paper.

pose with notes to the main character in “Hidden Figures,” NASA mathematician ... to think out of the box and bring some creative ideas to an environment that could easily have suppressed ...

“Hidden Figures,” to its credit, does this sort of thing well, and it does it on behalf of black women who are really good at math. In telling the story of three mathematicians whose beautiful ...

Janelle Monáe (from left), Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in "Hidden Figures." In “Hidden Figures,” a black woman’s prolonged absences from her desk attract notice from her peers ...

The subject: the new historical drama "Hidden Figures," about the largely untold story of the African-American women who played a key role in the U.S. space program in the racially turbulent 1960s.

There are three outstanding ideas at the spine of “Hidden Figures”: Merit, love of learning and relentless preparation. Because doors that had been closed for hundreds of years were about to ...

Some movies rely on a single character to make a compelling experience. “Hidden Figures” has three key characters who could make any other movie on their own. So despite an overly calculated ...

The new film “Hidden Figures” tells the inspiring story of ... workers will thrive in future workplaces where the only ideas that matter are the next ones. If our state is to make the ...