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Categories: 1561 births, Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, 17th-century English mathematicians, 1630 deaths, Professors of Gresham College
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Henry Briggs  Arithmetica Logarithmica
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Henry Briggs was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. Wikipedia
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mathematician
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Henry Briggs was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. Wikipedia
English mathematician Wikipedia Disambiguation
British mathematician Wikidata
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homo
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Kingdom of England
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
DOCTORAL STUDENT
John Pell
EDUCATED AT
St John's College, Cambridge
EMPLOYER
Gresham College
ETHNIC GROUP
English
FAMILY NAME
Briggs
GIVEN NAME
Henry
INFLUENCED BY
Napier
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Latin
OCCUPATION
mathematician
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Halifax
PLACE OF DEATH
Oxford
RESIDENCE
England
SEX OR GENDER
male
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Henry Briggs (mathematician)
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Henry Briggs
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Arithmetica Logarithmica

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