George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...
The mathematician toiled in obscurity at a naval research center in Virginia for 42 years.
Dr. Gladys Mae West, a pioneering mathematician whose little-recognized work in a Naval lab helped create GPS, died Jan. 17 at her daughter’s home in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She was 95.