Historians of mathematics and computing have tended to focus on published books of tables and the individuals and groups that produced them, rather than the kind of objects represented in the ...

IT is common knowledge now that the tabulation of mathematical functions, and the whole approach to numerical mathematics, have been revolutionized with the present century by the increased use and ...

Tables of Functions and of Zeros of Functions: Collected Short Tables of the National Bureau of Standards Computation Laboratory. (Applied Mathematics Series—No. 37.) Pp. x + 211; 2.25 dollars. Table ...

Those learning and using mathematics have long consulted tables of numbers. The ancient Babylonians used clay tablets for this purpose. Papyrus, parchment, and paper all proved suitable for recording ...

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