A logarithm is a mathematical operation that determines how many times a certain number, called the base, is multiplied by itself to reach another number. Because logarithms relate geometric ...

I HAVE recently been considering how best the theory of logarithms could be presented to a beginner without such a paralysing opening as used to be the practice (see Todhunter). I do not know what is ...

IN the preface Prof. Peirce writes:—“Logarithms ought not to be comprised, as they often are, in the midst of a treatise on algebra. For, in the first place, they are not algebraic functions; and, ...