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?