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001 2004298837
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008 040414s2003 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aQA47$b.H57 2003
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245 04 $aThe history of mathematical tables :$bfrom Sumer to spreadsheets /$cedited by M. Campbell-Kelly ... [et al.].
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2003.
300 $aviii, 361 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTables and tabular formatting in Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, 2500 BCE-50 CE -- The making of logarithm tables -- History of actuarial tables -- The computation factory : de Prony's project for making tables in the 1790s -- Difference engines : from Müller to Comrie -- The 'unerring certainty of mechanical agency' : machines and table making in the nineteenth century -- Table making in astronomy -- The General Register Office and the tabulation of data, 1837-1939 -- Table making by committee : British table makers, 1871-1965 -- Table making for the relief of labour -- The making of astronomical tables in HM Nautical Almanac Office -- The rise and rise of the spreadsheet.
650 0 $aMathematics$xTables$xHistory.
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory.
700 1 $aCampbell-Kelly, Martin.