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Presented By: Math Grad Show and Tell Seminar - Department of Mathematics

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Math Grad Show and Tell Seminar: The First Logarithm

Duarte Maia (University of Chicago)

Image taken from the wonderful booklet "John Napier and The Invention of Logarithms, 1614" by E. W. Hobson, which serves as the main reference for this talk. Image taken from the wonderful booklet "John Napier and The Invention of Logarithms, 1614" by E. W. Hobson, which serves as the main reference for this talk.
Image taken from the wonderful booklet "John Napier and The Invention of Logarithms, 1614" by E. W. Hobson, which serves as the main reference for this talk.
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.
Image taken from the wonderful booklet "John Napier and The Invention of Logarithms, 1614" by E. W. Hobson, which serves as the main reference for this talk. Image taken from the wonderful booklet "John Napier and The Invention of Logarithms, 1614" by E. W. Hobson, which serves as the main reference for this talk.
Image taken from the wonderful booklet "John Napier and The Invention of Logarithms, 1614" by E. W. Hobson, which serves as the main reference for this talk.

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