Beautiful Numbers: The Rise and Decline of the British Association Mathematical Tables Committee, 1871-1965

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 44-61

  Croarken, Mary ^a   Campbell Kelly, Martin ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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