What is a numerical table? Milestones for a historical research project
Résumé
What is a numerical table and why does this object interest historians of mathematics? Since the beginning of the HTN project, we have listened to more than fifty talks on this subject, sometimes contradictory. From these various points of view, we must decide what is finally a numerical table. What is therefore the exact field of our project? What definition to adopt to delimit this field with precision?