Book, A Short Table of Integrals
date: label: date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: Peirce, Benjamin O.
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content: Before the widespread availability of sophisticated electronic calculators, students studying calculus often purchased tables of commonly used integrals. This is one such table, initially prepared by Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1854-1918), Hollis Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. The pamphlet Peirce published in 1889 was thirty-two pages long with a listing of some 264 integrals, 15 auxiliary formulae, and a few useful mathematical tables. It was republished several times over the years. By the time this third edition appeared in 1929, Peirce was dead and the book had expanded to 156 pages.
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content: This example of the book was owned by the German- American statistician, mathematician and computer pioneer Carl Hammer (1914-2004).
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content: Reference:
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content: Archibald, Raymond Claire, <I>Mathematical Table Makers: Portraits, Pointings, Busts, Monuments BioBibliographical Notes</I>, New York: Scripta Mathematica, 1948, pp. 67-68. Archibald indicates that the 1929 third revised edition of Peirce's Short Table of Integrals was prepared by William F. Osgood.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carl Hammer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3105.10
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3105
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3105.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.3 cm x 15 cm x 21.2 cm; 1/2 in x 5 29/32 in x 8 11/32 in