Priority, parallel discovery, and pre-eminence. Napier, Bürgi and the early history of the logarithm relation

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Authors: Kathleen M. Clark, Clemency Montelle 

Publication date: 28 February 2013

Full work available at URL: http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/RevueHistoireMath/18/html/smf_rhm_18_223-270.php

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zbMATH Keywords

interpolationarithmetic progressionpriorityRenaissancelogarithmKeplergeometric progressionClaviusGuldinJohn NapierWernerStifelBriggsJost BürgiCajoriparallel insight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of special functions (33-03)

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