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English
Pages
361

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Cover of: History of Mathematical Tables
History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets
2007, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: The history of mathematical tables
The history of mathematical tables: from Sumer to spreadsheets
2003, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: History of Mathematical Tables
History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets
2003, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL TABLES: FROM SUMER TO SPREADSHEETS; ED. BY MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY.
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL TABLES: FROM SUMER TO SPREADSHEETS; ED. BY MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY.
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Table of Contents

Tables 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
510/.2/12
Library of Congress
QA47 .H57 2003, QA47

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Pagination
viii, 361 p. :
Number of pages
361

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OL3325371M
ISBN 10
0198508417
LCCN
2004298837
OCLC/WorldCat
52232446
Library Thing
2635846
Goodreads
2448489

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