Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was one of the most influential women in the world of computer science. An admirable patriot to her country, Grace spent the larger part of her life dedicated to the United States Navy becoming the oldest person to retire from active service. Hopper developed the first computer compiler and developed a computer language that helped the computer world become what it is today. Her contributions were also in the world of mathematics, where her work was done on irreducibility criteria. She spent half of a century dedicated to keeping the United States on the edge of high technology.

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INTRO TO MATH

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INTRO TO WORKSHEET

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