The history of mathematical tables
Subtitle: from Sumer to spreadsheets
By: edited by M. Campbell-Kelly ... [et al.].
Contributors: Campbell-Kelly, Martin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Mathematics -- Tables -- History.; Mathematics -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tables and tabular formatting in Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, 2500 BCE-50 CE; title: The making of logarithm tables; title: History of actuarial tables; title: The computation factory : de Prony's project for making tables in the 1790s; title: Difference engines : from Müller to Comrie; title: The 'unerring certainty of mechanical agency' : machines and table making in the nineteenth century; title: Table making in astronomy; title: The General Register Office and the tabulation of data, 1837-1939; title: Table making by committee : British table makers, 1871-1965; title: Table making for the relief of labour; title: The making of astronomical tables in HM Nautical Almanac Office; title: The rise and rise of the spreadsheet.