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The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets / edited by M. Campbell-Kelly ... [et al.].

By: Campbell-Kelly, Martin [edt.].
Contributor(s): Croarken, Mary; Flood, Raymond; Robson, Eleanor.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: viii, 361 p., UKP 60.00 ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0198508417.Subject(s): Mathematics -- Tables -- History | Mathematics -- HistoryDDC classification: 510/.2/12 Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only
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 M�uller 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.

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 M�uller 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.