Jackson later advocates for women at NASA

Obi taught and supervised research as African universities expanded beyond colonial educational structures.

He also organized politically and argued about Nigeria's development, showing that mathematicians can participate directly in public struggles.

Jackson moved from the West Area Computing Unit into engineering and became NASA's first Black female engineer.

Her research analyzed boundary layers, pressure and aircraft behaviour in high-speed wind tunnels.

She needed special permission to attend classes held at an all-white school, exposing how law restricted scientific careers.

The Indian mental calculator became internationally famous for rapidly performing difficult arithmetic without electronic aids.

Her demonstrations made large-number operations visible and exciting to mass audiences across many countries.

She built authority outside a conventional academic research path, raising questions about mental skill, education and mathematical culture.

Her books included puzzles, popular mathematics and an early Indian study arguing for understanding rather than criminalizing homosexuality.

West became a mathematician and programmer whose geodetic models contributed to the technology underlying GPS.