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THE worthy completion of a long and arduous task will always draw from the beholder the tribute of an almost personal gratification. Our sympathy and interest are at once enlisted by the opening sentences of Prof.?.?. Neville's preface to the latest volume of the British Association mathematical tables, Volume 6, a table of Bessel functions of orders zero and unity: "It is with the satisfaction of keeping a long-anticipated engagement that a Committee of the British Association issues its first volume of tables of Bessel functions. Half a century ago, the Committee decided that the tabulation of Bessel functions was the most useful undertaking that it could promote". Our sympathy is deepened when we read that Prof. Alfred Lodge, who had been one of the original Committee of 1889 and to whom this handsome volume is dedicated in terms of grateful affection, died on the very eve of its publication.
Bessel Functions
Part 1: Functions of Orders Zero and Unity. (British Association for the Advancement of Science. Mathematical Tables, Vol. 6.) Prepared by the Committee for the Calculation of Mathematical Tables. Pp. xx + 288. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937.) 40s. net.
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A., A. Bessel Functions. Nature 142, 934 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142934a0
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