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Trial and Error and Approximation an Arithmetic*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. C. Aitken
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Some years ago there was a vogue for a series of books dealing imaginatively with the future and bearing such titles as Daedalus, or the Future of Science, Icarus, or the Future of Flying, and the like. I do not recall whether arithmetic was among the topics considered by the ingenious authors, but a further title, Archimedes, or the Future of Calculation, might certainly have been suggested by the developments of modern arithmometers.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 21 , Issue 243 , May 1937 , pp. 117 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1937

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A paper to the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association, 5th January, 1937.

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* A paper to the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association, 5th January, 1937.