The visual blog Information is Beautiful deduced that, while taking creative license into account, the film was 74% accurate when compared to real-life events, summarizing that "the crux of the story is true, [and] any events that didn't actually happen are at least illustrative of how things really were".
In the movie, she has a eureka moment while staring at a blackboard and realizes that “old math” might be the solution. She turns to Euler's method, which in layman's terms allows the mathematician to approximate a differential equation numerically without actually ever really solving it.Feb 4, 2017
Euler's methodAs told in the book (and movie) Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson led the team of African-American women who did the actual calculation of the necessary trajectory from the earth to the moon for the US Apollo space program. They used Euler's method to do this.
9. Why does Paul go over some of his work with a marker? He goes over with the marker because the work is on clearance.
Why does Katherine's oldest daughter get her own bed? She gets the largest bed because she does the chores and is the largest child.
Euler's Method is one way to solve the equations, Horne said, which is why he proposed it for the film. "The work for solving these coupled differential equations was done by the whole team of researchers at NASA and possibly in part by Katherine Johnson," Horne wrote in an email to Inside Science.Feb 24, 2017
Johnson was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on August 26, 1918. Math came easy to her, but she worked hard to master geometry and algebra.
She was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson as a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress....Katherine JohnsonSpouse(s)James Goble ( m. 1939; died 1956) Jim Johnson ( m. 1959; died 2019)Children310 more rows
Johnson was a prodigy, to say the least. She graduated from high school at just 14. Afterwards, Johnson intended to study French and English at West Virginia State. But her professor W.W. Schiefflin Claytor—a trailblazing Black mathematician in his own right—encouraged her to explore her talent for STEM instead.Feb 24, 2020
Why does Al Harrison (Katherine's boss) get annoyed with her? He got annoyed at her because she is always not there when he needs here 18. What does he do about it? He took down the sign by the restroom that said whites and made it for colors and whites.
She spent the next four years analyzing data from flight tests and worked on the investigation of a plane crash caused by wake turbulence. As she was wrapping up this work her husband died of cancer in December 1956.Feb 24, 2020
What is the significance of this gift? Katherine had always wanted pearls, but could never afford them. In the dress code, pearls were the only jewelry that women could wear.