Jost Bürgi and the discovery of the logarithms

DOI10.4171/EM/253zbMath1311.01014MaRDI QIDQ2515075

Jörg Waldvogel

Publication date: 10 February 2015

Published in: Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?vol=69&iss=3&issn=0013-6018&rank=1

zbMATH Keywords

statisticsround-off errorslogarithm tables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of numerical analysis (65-03)

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