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1561-1630
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Inventor of base 10 logarithms (1)
Mathematics biography (2)
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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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