Historians of mathematics and computing have tended to focus on published books of tables and the individuals and groups that produced them, rather than the kind of objects represented in the ...
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THE lack of the relevant mathematical tables for investigations in the physical, chemical and engineering sciences, in mathematics and in industry may well delay progress, and steps are being taken to ...
ON January 1, 1943, there appeared the first number of a new journal, entitled Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computation. It is published by the National Research Council (Washington, U.S.A.), and ...
Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers At least 1,000 years before the Greek ...
Lynda Colgan receives funding from The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario and The Mathematics Knowledge Network (KNAER). Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding ...
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