Talk:Henry Briggs (mathematician)

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It is very important to say WHY the change to Napier logarithms was important. What difference did it make ? Can someone explain? Johncmullen1960 05:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Base 10 logarithms led to easier calculations in decimal arithmetic. [Martyn Thomas, 8 December 2015, 18:23 UTC] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.14.116.49 (talk) 18:23, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

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The article may be improved by following the WPBiogaphy 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 00:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Personal life

He was born at Warley Wood, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, England. After studying Latin and Greek at a local grammar school, he entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1577, and graduated in 1581.[1] In 1588, he was elected a Fellow of St. John's. In 1592 he was made reader of the physical lecture founded by Thomas Linacre; he would also read some of the mathematical lectures as well. During this period, he took an interest in navigation and astronomy, collaborating with Edward Wright. In 1596, he became first professor of geometry in the recently founded Gresham College, London; he would lecture there for nearly 23 years, and would make Gresham college a center of English mathematics, from which he would notably support the new ideas of Johannes Kepler. He was a friend of Christopher Heydon, the writer on astrology. At this time, Briggs obtained a copy of Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, which fired his imagination- in his lectures at Gresham College he proposed the alteration of the scale of logarithms from the hyperbolic 1 / e form which John Napier had given them in his tract, to that in which unity is assumed as the logarithm of the ratio of ten to one; and soon afterwards he wrote to the inventor on the subject. Briggs was active in many areas, and his advice in astronomy, surveying, navigation, and other activities like mining was frequently sought. Briggs in 1619 invested in the London Company, and he had two sons: Henry, who later emigrated to Virginia, and Thomas, who remained in England.[2] The lunar crater Briggs is named in his honour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.87.177.10 (talk) 10:33, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Link towards the LOCOMAT collection

Do you think it appropriate to add a link towards my locomat (http://www.loria.fr/~roegel/locomat.html) collection of reconstructions of mathematical tables? It contains full analyses and reconstructions of Briggs' tables.Roegel (talk) 19:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

unit

"neper" unit is named after John Napier ( if A/A₀ = m, then Ln (m) would be expressed in Np). so why don't we have "brig", Bg for log₁₀? so pH and Richter and starlight magnitude and also sound level can be easily expressed in Bg (Bel is inappropriate because it is β/2 Np. [ 1 Bg = β Np, where β = ln 10]
Tabascofernandez (talk) 02:54, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

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I'm not sure that the depicted person was Henry Briggs (mathematician) (1561-1630). The subtitle of the picture says Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, but Briggs (mathematician) never was chaplain. The date (1738) in the down right corner of the image is also an indication that he is another Henry Briggs. Ferran Mir (talk) 17:14, 12 August 2024 (UTC)