Irving Stringham
American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1847 to 1909 · aged 61
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.
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"In place of we shall henceforth use the shorter symbol , made up of the initial letters of logarithm and of natural or Napierian."
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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1847 to 1909 · aged 61
