Henry Briggs
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 394 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 1,1561 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Yorkshire |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | January 26,1630 |
| Died | Oxford |
| United Kingdom | |
| Influenced by | John Napier |
| Known for | Logarithm |
| Logarithms in base 10 | |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Education | St John's College, Cambridge |
| University of Cambridge | |
| St John's College | |
| Books | Arithmetica logarithmica |
| The Effects of Errors in Surveying | |
| Five Place Table of Natural Trigonometric Functions to Hundredths of a Degree | |
| Influencees | John Napier |
| Influenc | John Napier |
| John Pell | |
| James Gregory | |
| Isaac Newton | |
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| ID | 538573 |
Henry Briggs Life story
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.
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