000277971 000__ 01559cam\a2200277\a\45\0 000277971 001__ 277971 000277971 005__ 20210513103922.0 000277971 008__ 030502s2003\\\\enka\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000277971 010__ $$a 2004298837 000277971 015__ $$aGBA3-X3347 000277971 020__ $$a0198508417 (alk. paper) 000277971 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm52232446 000277971 040__ $$aUKM$$cUKM$$dDLC$$dC#P$$dIBS 000277971 042__ $$alccopycat 000277971 049__ $$aISEA 000277971 05000 $$aQA47$$b.H57 2003 000277971 08204 $$a510.212$$221 000277971 24504 $$aThe history of mathematical tables :$$bfrom Sumer to spreadsheets /$$cedited by M. Campbell-Kelly ... [et al.]. 000277971 260__ $$aOxford ;$$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2003. 000277971 300__ $$aviii, 361 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm. 000277971 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000277971 5050_ $$aTables and tabular formatting in Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, 2500 BCE-50 CE -- The making of logarithm tables -- History of actuarial tables -- The computation factory : de Prony's project for making tables in the 1790s -- Difference engines : from Müller to Comrie -- The 'unerring certainty of mechanical agency' : machines and table making in the nineteenth century -- Table making in astronomy -- The General Register Office and the tabulation of data, 1837-1939 -- Table making by committee : British table makers, 1871-1965 -- Table making for the relief of labour -- The making of astronomical tables in HM Nautical Almanac Office -- The rise and rise of the spreadsheet. 000277971 650_0 $$aMathematics$$xTables$$xHistory. 000277971 650_0 $$aMathematics$$xHistory. 000277971 7001_ $$aCampbell-Kelly, Martin. 000277971 85200 $$bgen$$hQA47$$i.H57$$i2003 000277971 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:277971$$pGLOBAL_SET 000277971 980__ $$aBIB 000277971 980__ $$aBOOK 000277971 994__ $$aC0$$bISE