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The first tables of trigonometric functions known to be made were by Hipparchus (c.190 – c.120 BCE) and Menelaus (c.70–140 CE), but both have been lost. Along with the surviving table of Ptolemy (c. 90 – c.168 CE), they were all tables of chords and not of half-chords, that is, the sine function. [1]
Glossary of mathematical symbols
The Mathematical Tables Project [1] [2] was one of the largest and most sophisticated computing organizations that operated prior to the invention of the digital electronic computer. Begun in the United States in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), it employed 450 unemployed clerks to tabulate higher mathematical ...
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Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
S. List of mathematical series. Sporadic group. Standard normal table. Supplément aux tables d'intégrales définies. Glossary of mathematical symbols. List of mathematical symbols by subject.
List of mathematical abbreviations