The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets /
The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets /
edited by M. Campbell-Kelly ... [et al.].
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- viii, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0198508417
2004298837
Mathematics--Tables--History.
Mathematics--History.
QA47 / .H57 2003
510/.2/12
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0198508417
2004298837
Mathematics--Tables--History.
Mathematics--History.
QA47 / .H57 2003
510/.2/12