Five-figure Tables of Mathematical Functions.

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8vo. 92 pp. Publisher's cloth, soiled. Tenth impression of Dale s Five-figure Tables of Mathematical Functions", signed ("Alan M. Turing | King's College.") on the front free endpaper.Soon after Turing's arrival in Cambridge he had "settled upon mathematics rather than science as his future course at Cambridge. Very early he acquired Dale's Five-figure Tables of Mathematical Functions.The book was purchased and read during Turing's time as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge from 1931. Provenance: Alan Turing (1912-1954); Robin Gandy (1919-1995), Turing's friend and one of his executors; bequeathed to Wolfson College. A Fellow of Wolfson from 1970 until his death in 1995, Gandy generously left his entire estate to the College, including these books once owned by Alan Turing, with the wish that his legacy be used to benefit the College and its students.

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Five-figure Tables of Mathematical Functions.

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, Edward Arnold, [c.1930]

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