DocumentCode
1521274
Title
The LOCOMAT Project: Recomputing Mathematical and Astronomical Tables
Author
Roegel, Denis
Author_Institution
LORIA
Volume
34
Issue
2
fYear
2012
Firstpage
74
Lastpage
79
Abstract
The LOCOMAT project (http://locomat.loria.fr) contains reconstructions of approximately 60 historical mathematical and astronomical tables (nearly 200 PDF files) and links to about 2,000 digitized tables on Google Books and elsewhere. (LOCOMAT stands for LORIA Collection of Mathematical Tables, but it could also be read as the LORIA Collection of Mathematical and Astronomical Tables. LORIA is a research center in computer science, located in Nancy, France.) After giving a brief summary of the history of mathematical and astronomical tables, this article describes that project.
Keywords
astronomy computing; digital libraries; history; mathematics computing; search engines; Google Books; LOCOMAT project; LORIA Collection of Mathematical and Astronomical Tables; PDF files; digitized tables; historical astronomical tables; historical mathematical tables; Astronomy; History; Mathematics; Briggs; Felkel; Kulik; LOCOMAT; LORIA; astronomical tables; history of computing; mathematical tables;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2012.32
Filename
6203530
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