Monday, September 21 - Duarte Maia

The First Logarithm

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Full Abstract:

Did you know that the notion of logarithm predates the notion of exponential by over a century? Did you know that the first logarithm was in base 1/e? In this talk, we'll go over how John Napier conceptualized the logarithm, what for, and some curious idiosyncrasies of his definition.