The history of mathematical tables : from Sumer to spreadsheets /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of 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 Mèuller 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.