Work for the Hairdressers: The Production of de Prony's Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables

DOI10.1109/MAHC.1990.10029zbMATH Open0706.01003OpenAlexW2064407787MaRDI QIDQ3486523FDOQ3486523

Authors: Ivor Grattan-Guinness 

Publication date: 1990

Published in: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/mahc.1990.10029

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zbMATH Keywords

Charles Babbagehistory of computinglogarithmic and trigonometric tables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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