Ranked #16 in Mining, Ranked #33 in Aerospace Engineering — see more rankings.
"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added. The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine."
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #50 in Mathematician Biography