Bessel Functions in Bulk

Abstract

THE Computation Laboratory of Harvard University is equipped with an IBM automatic sequence controlled calculator, the construction and operation of which are described in Volume 1 of its Annals (see Nature, 158, 567, Oct. 26, 1946). It was built with Bessel functions in the forefront of its programme, but has seen some war service. Now the calculation of these functions is –and despite its speed and ability to work 168 hours per week is likely for some time to remain –its ‘base load’.

Tables of the Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Zero and One

By the Staff of the Computation Laboratory. (Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Vol. 3). Pp. xxxvii+652.

Tables of the Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Two and Three

By the Staff of the Computation Laboratory. (Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Vol. 4.) Pp. ix+652.

Tables of the Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Four, Five and Six

By the Staff of the Computation Laboratory. (Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Vol. 5.) Pp. xi+652.

Tables of the Bessel Functions of the First Kind of Orders Seven, Eight and Nine

By the Staff of the Computation Laboratory. (Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Vol. 6.) Pp. ix+648. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1947.) 55s. net each volume.