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This chapter briefly introduces a prelude that encompasses the history of measurement and measurement uncertainty, tracing the development of modern metrology from ancient Egypt, to the early renaissance with the advent of calculus by Newton, to the late renaissance with the advent of statistics by Laplace, to the dawn of the industrial age with Kelvin, to the post World War II age of Kline and McClintock, and finally to the introduction of the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurements also known as the GUM and its supplements in the early part of the twenty-first century. The utility and functionality of the GUM, both with its current limitations and its future outlook for the evolution of measurement uncertainty, are contextualized and discussed.
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Garg, N., Ramnath, V., Yadav, S. (2023). Advanced Techniques in Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty. In: Aswal, D.K., Yadav, S., Takatsuji, T., Rachakonda, P., Kumar, H. (eds) Handbook of Metrology and Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2074-7_123
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