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Joost Bürgi o Jobst Bürgi (también conocido por su forma latinizada Byrgius) (28 de febrero de 1552, Lichtensteig, Suiza - 31 de enero de 1632, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel) fue un relojero y matemático suizo.
- Suiza
Joost Bürgi o Jobst Bürgi fue un relojero y matemático suizo. En ocasiones es acreditado como el inventor de los logaritmos, aunque habitualmente el crédito de este descubrimiento se atribuye al británico John Napier, quien fue el primero en publicar su trabajo.
Joost Bürgi (born Feb. 28, 1552, Lichtensteig, Switz.—died Jan. 31, 1632, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel) was a mathematician who invented logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician John Napier.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and Prague, was a Swiss clockmaker, a maker of astronomical instruments and a mathematician.
- 28 February 1552, Lichtensteig, Toggenburg, Switzerland
- Logarithms
Jost Bürgi was a Swiss mathematician who discovered logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician Napier. View two larger pictures. Biography. Jost Bürgi's first name is sometime written as Joost, Jobst or Justus while his second name is sometime written in a Latin form Byrgius.
González-Velasco stated that “for the sake of fairness that the earliest discoverer of logarithms was Joost, or Jobst, Bürgi (1552–1632), a Swiss clockmaker, about 1588” (p. 100). As was the case with Bürgi, Napier began working on his conception of logarithms some years before his first publication in 1614.
Joost Bürgi. 1552-1632. German Mathematician. I n his work as a clockmaker and astronomer, Joost Bürgi needed accurate mathematical information, and for this reason developed the concept of logarithms into a practical method of computation.
