Henry Briggs

1561-1630


 

 
Inventor of base 10 logarithms (1)
Mathematics biography (2)

Notes

Selected Works of Henry Briggs

Henry Briggs, Arithmetica Logarithmica (1624). Translation with notes by Ian Bruce available online at http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Miscellaneous/Briggs/index.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2004 Sep 28).


1. Jacob Leverich, "Logarithm Tables," http://www.dgatx.com/computing/people/Jacob-Leverich/pubs/2003/LT/CS378.html (www.dgatx.com, 2003 Sep 17, accessed 2003 Sep 23).

2. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "Henry Briggs," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Briggs.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13)

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