Mathematician:Henry Briggs
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Mathematician
English mathematician most famous for converting Napierian logarithms into Briggsian (common) logarithms.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: Feb 1561, Warleywood, Yorkshire, England
- Died: 26 Jan 1630, Oxford, England
Theorems and Definitions
Definitions of concepts named for Henry Briggs can be found here.
Publications
- 1602: A Table to find the Height of the Pole, the Magnetic Declination being given
- 1610: Tables for the Improvement of Navigation
- 1616, 1618: A Description of an Instrumental Table to find the part proportional, devised by Mr Edward Wright
- 1617: Logarithmorum Chilias Prima
- 1619: Lucubrationes et Annotationes in opera posthuma J. Neperi
- 1620: An edition of the first six book of Euclid's The Elements
- 1622: A Treatise of the Northwest Passage to the South Sea, Through the Continent of Virginia and by Fretum Hudson (as by H.B.)
- 1624: Arithmetica Logarithmica
- 1633: Trigonometria Britannica (posthumous, added to by others)
Unpublished
- Commentaries on the Geometry of Peter Ramus
- Remarks on the Treatise of Longomontanus respecting the Quadrature of the Circle
Sources
- 1938: A. Geary, H.V. Lowry and H.A. Hayden: Mathematics for Technical Students, Part One ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetic: Chapter $\text I$: Decimals
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $5$: Eternal Triangles: Base ten logarithms
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)