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HENRY BRIGGS died three hundred years ago, on Jan. 26, 1631. He is famous for his important works on logarithms. Napier's first publication of the invention of logarithms, in 1614, had come on the ...
Briggs, Henry. 1. Dates. Born: Worley Wood, Yorkshire, Feb. 1561 Baptized on 23 Feb. 1561. Died: Oxford, 26 Jan. 1630. 2. Father. Thomas Smith, writing early in the 18th century, said that Briggs' parents were "humble of class and rather slender of means." Humble of class could mean too many things to guess, but I take the slender means to ...
El reverendo Henry Briggs (Warleywood, 1561- Oxford, Reino Unido, 1630) fue un clérigo y matemático inglés, notable por haber realizado el cambio de los logaritmos de Napier a los logaritmos decimales o de Briggs (logaritmos en base 10), tradicionalmente utilizados en muchas aplicaciones por su menor complejidad de cálculo.
Vida y Biografía de Henry Briggs. (Warley Wood, 1561-Oxford, 1631) Matemático inglés. Profesor en Cambridge y Oxford, realizó unas tablas astronómicas y de navegación, más allá de que su obra primordial la forman las completísimas tablas de logaritmos decimales que publicó entre 1618 y 1620.
Common logarithm. A graph of the common logarithm of numbers from 0.1 to 100. In mathematics, the common logarithm is the logarithm with base 10. [1] It is also known as the decadic logarithm and as the decimal logarithm, named after its base, or Briggsian logarithm, after Henry Briggs, an English mathematician who pioneered its use, as well as ...
Indeed, Fauvel and van Maanen assert that “the meeting of Briggs and Napier is one of the great tales in the history of mathematics” (p. xi). Unfortunately, it seems that many teachers (and their students) are not aware of this particular “great tale” – or, at most, superficially associate the names Briggs and Napier with the invention of the logarithm.
Henry Briggs was born in Warley on 23rd February, 1560. In those days the New Year began on March 25th so in terms of our reckoning the year of his birth is 1561. The date of birth is confirmed by the Halifax Parish Register of Baptisms, currently held in the archives at Wakefield. Sources say that he attended a grammar school in Warley before ...
