Catalogue description Report on papers relating to: The British Association Mathematical Tables Committee 1871 - 1948 received from Professor M.V. Wilkes, FRS

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Details of CSAC 58/2/78
Reference: CSAC 58/2/78
Title: Report on papers relating to: The British Association Mathematical Tables Committee 1871 - 1948 received from Professor M.V. Wilkes, FRS
Description:

CSAC 58/2/78/A.1 - A.4 Minute Books of the Committee 1929-48

 

CSAC 58/2/78/B.1 - B.20 Annual Reports of the Committee 1896, 1923-1939, 1948, Final Report

 

CSAC 58/2/78/C.1 - C.4 Correspondence & papers relating to Elliptic Functions 1925-1943

 

CSAC 58/2/78/D.1 - D.5 Correspondence & papers relating to the Cunningham Bequest 1930-1960

 

CSAC 58/2/78/E.1 - E.3 Misc. correspondence & papers relating to the Committee
Note:

CSAC is supported by the Royal Society, the British Library and the Council of Engineering Institutions

 

Compiled by: Jeannine Alton and Harriot Weiskittel

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Date: 1871 - 1948
Related material:

A fuller account of the work, members and history of the Committee appears as a 'Short History' in the Final Report of the Committee (CSAC 58/2/78/B.20) and also in the Memorandum drawn up for submission to the Council of the British Association in March 1946 (CSAC 58/2/78/A.4).
Held by: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

British Mathematical Tables Committee
Physical description: 36 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received from Professor M.V. Wilkes, FRS, who served on the Committee 1939-48, and who had in turn received them from Dr. J.C.P. Miller, the last Secretary of the Committee 1945-48.
Subjects:
  • Mathematics
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee was set up in 1871, 'for the purpose of reporting on Mathematical Tables, which it may be desirable to compute or reprint'; the Committee was re-formed and reorganised at various times but its purpose remained broadly along its original lines.

 

In 1928 Col. A.J.C. Cunningham (member of the Committee 1895-1901, Secretary 1896-1901) died leaving in his Will 'one-twelfth part (of my residuary estate) for preparing new Mathematical Tables in the Theory of Numbers'. This legacy was used to produce Vols.III, IV, V, VIII and IX of the B.A. Tables (see Section D).

 

The B.A. Committee held its final meeting on 23 June 1948, its assets and liabilities, including the residue of the Cunningham bequest, being transferred to the Royal Society on 30 June 1948.
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