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245 0 4 _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.
_951403
650 0 _aMathematics
_xHistory.
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700 1 _aCampbell-Kelly, Martin.
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0620/2004298837-d.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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