Those learning and using mathematics have long consulted tables of numbers. The ancient Babylonians used clay tablets for this purpose. Papyrus, parchment, and paper all proved suitable for recording ...

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 ...

Tables placed in the UMT file give the complete factorization over $\mathrm {GF}(q), q = p^a$, of each trinomial $T(x)$ of degree $n, 2 \leqslant n \leqslant d$, as ...

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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