Abstract
THE Works Progress Administration of the City of New York is undertaking extensive computation of mathematical tables. The work is sponsored by Dr. L. J. Briggs, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and is intended to give employment to clerical workers in New York. Several tables, including Bessel functions for complex arguments, exponential and trigonometric integrals, and the error function are completed or in active progress. Of the tables under consideration, the most note-worthy is a table of elliptic functions for complex arguments so designed as to cover a period parallelogram in each case.
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Mathematical Table. Nature 144, 508 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144508a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144508a0