دانلود کتاب The History of Mathematical Tables. From Sumer To Spreadsheets

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Contents
Introduction
1. Tables and tabular formatting in Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, 2500 BCE–50 CE
2. The making of logarithm tables
3. History of actuarial tables
4. The computation factory: de Prony\'s project for making tables in the 1790s
5. Difference engines: from Müller to Comrie
6. The \'unerring certainty of mechanical agency\': machines and table making in the nineteenth century
7. Table making in astronomy
8. The General Register Office and the tabulation of data, 1837–1939
9. Table making by committee: British table makers 1871–1965
10. Table making for the relief of labour
11. The making of astronomical tables in HM Nautical Almanac Office
12. The rise and rise of the spreadsheet
Biographical notes
Index
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