Logarithms are a convenient way to express large numbers. Before the invention of calculators, the only alternative to slide rules was to use tables of logarithms. Some important formulae, also called ...

Learn how to graph logarithmic functions. The logarithmic function is the inverse of the exponential function. To graph a logarithmic function, it is usually very useful to make the table of values of ...

The inventor, Martin Wiberg, (September 4, 1826-December 29, 1905) was born in Viby, Sweden. He is known to be among computer pioneers for his invention that could print logarithmic tables. In 1845 he ...

THIS collection of five-figure tables has been compiled, as a war-time measure, to meet the ever-increasing demand, both in industry and elsewhere, for accurate numerical information of this kind.

THESE tables aim at popularising logarithms. Like other four-figure tables they give the logarithms of numbers from 1000 to 9999. While the ordinary tables give these in one opening of two pages by ...

What a difference a century makes. In 1914 the most prominent historians of mathematics gathered to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of a great historical figure. Now, in 2014, barely a ...