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 ...

Donald asks, “How do you like that for mathematics?” Because rectangular billiard tables have four walls meeting at right angles, billiard trajectories like Donald’s are predictable and well ...

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Tables of Airy Functions and Special Confluent Hypergeometric Functions for Asymptotic Solutions of Differential Equations of the Second Order By A. D. Smirnov. Translated from the Russian by D.

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