The Cherokee Mathematician Who Helped Design America’s Space Age – While Much Of Her Work Remained Secret
It is not complete.
The classification that protected the most advanced work she did during her career means that the full account of her contributions cannot be reconstructed from the public record.
The institutional dynamics of mid-twentieth-century aerospace engineering mean that even the unclassified record attributes work to teams and programs rather than to individual engineers, obscuring the specific contributions of people — women, in particular — who were doing analytically central work.
The incompleteness of the record is real.