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The quest to decipher hidden numerical patterns and unveil the missing number within a table is a compelling exercise in ...
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 object of the authors of this volume of mathematical tables is “to supply a comprehensive set of tables of the numerical values of the elementary functions which are in constant use in mathematics ...
Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...
Strike a billiard ball on a frictionless table with no pockets so that it never stops bouncing off the table walls. If you returned years later, what would you find? Would the ball have settled into ...
THE Works Progress Administration of the City of New York is undertaking extensive computation of mathematical tables. The work is sponsored by Dr. L. J. Briggs, director of the National Bureau of ...