Because logarithms relate geometric progressions to arithmetic progressions, examples are found throughout nature and art, such as the spacing of guitar frets, mineral hardness, and the ...

IN the preface Prof. Peirce writes:—“Logarithms ought not to be comprised, as they often are, in the midst of a treatise on algebra. For, in the first place, they are not algebraic functions ...

I'd never have guessed, in the days when I used to paw through my grubby book of logarithms in maths classes, that I'd come to look back with fondness on these tables of cryptic decimals.

They owe their existence to a much later mathematical development that is celebrating its 400th anniversary this year: the invention of logarithms. Back in those days, when the Scientific ...

Logarithms are a common idea today, even though we don’t use them as often as we used to. After all, one of the major uses of logarithms is to simplify computations, and computers do that just ...

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Every semester I teach calculus I ask my students if they know why we care about logarithms. And every semester I am met with a sea of blank faces and shoulder shrugs. "What is the most important ...