Briggs, Henry

The Englishman Henry Briggs (1561 - 1630) was a mathematician.

He changed the original natural logarithms invented by John Napier into the common (base 10) logarithms, which are known as Briggsian logarithms. In 1624, he published the logarithms of thirty thousand natural numbers (1-20,000 and 90,001 to 100,000) to fourteen decimal places.

The remaining logarithms of the numbers 20,001 to 90,000 were later calculated by Ezechiel de Decker to ten decimal places.

See also

• Archimedes
• Burgius
• de Decker
• al Khwarizmi
• Napier
• Stifel