I'm looking for books (technical) that cover how math-heavy fields handled calculations before computers, algorithms, and software replaced humans.
I’m talking about real-world, life-critical stuff like , navigation, water system, weather forecasting, statistics, meteorology, logistics, epidemiology, land measurement, agriculture, telecommunications and signal processing —basically the math behind modern society that we totally take for granted now. I should be capable of doing the above mentioned stuff on my own. So what books would you guys recommend?

>>16733504 (OP)
Prior to digital computers there were electronic calculators, mechanical calculators, slide rules, abacuses, and counting tables. Slide rules were used by engineers into the 1970s (Keuffel & Esser’s manuals or The Slide Rule and Logarithmic Tables by J.J. Clark). The later problems in Timoshenko's Engineering Mechanics are orientated around logarithms to cut down the amount of computation for students. More involved calculations (say from meteorological observations) were just computed by offices of people with or without mechanical assistance

>>16733504 (OP)
>fuck AI and computers, resisting progress is based and redpilled

And you MAGA rednecks wonder why young white men today are a bunch of broke, unemployed losers who have no friends. It's 2025. You don't need to know how to do this on your own when a computer can just do it for you, and do it more quickly and more accurately than you could ever do on your own.

Hating or avoiding technology in the modern world is a sure ticket to a life of ignorance and poverty. Learning is great, so I'm glad your interested in learning about math and science, but you should be focusing your time and effort on learning and keeping up with modern science and all the recent progress in AI, physics, biology, etc., not wasting time learning a bunch of outdated textbooks. Science is about progress and looking towards the future, not clinging to the past.

>>16733605
>inventing a quote to get mad at

>>16733504 (OP)
Going for an MS in applied statistics, is it a waste of time? I already have an MS in nursing but I'd like to get more involved in clinical research and health IT.

>>16733504 (OP)
Going for an MS in applied statistics, is it a waste of time? I already have an MS in nursing but I'd like to get more involved in clinical research and health IT. I'm already learning Python in my spare time.

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>>16733652
In this economy? You must be retarded.

>>16733605
>Guy simply asks for book recommendation. >Chronically onilne retard casually shoves politics.