# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-stringham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:03:37.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-stringham"
name: "Irving Stringham"
slug: "irving-stringham"
description: "Washington Irving Stringham was an American mathematician born in Yorkshire, New York. He was the first person to denote the natural logarithm as  where  is its argument. The use of  in place of  is commonplace in digital calculators today.\n\"In place of  we shall henceforth use the shorter symbol , made up of the initial letters of logarithm and of natural or Napierian.\""
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irving_Stringham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-12-10"
deathDate: "1909-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Стрингхем, Ирвинг"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump