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 ...

IT is refreshing to come across a set of mathematical tables that are original in construction and use. Thus all that need be said of Mr. Castle's tables (i) is that they seem to contain what the ...

Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers At least 1,000 years before the Greek ...

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 ...

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