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Henry Briggs | English Mathematician & Logarithm Pioneer ...!
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Warleywood, Yorkshire, England
Oxford, England
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Henry Briggs was the man most responsible for scientists' acceptance of logarithms.Henry briggs mathematician biography rubric
He is of great importance in the development of mathematics but, as Hill writes in [8]:-
... significant though Briggs was as a mathematician in his own right, his greatest importance was as a contact and public relations man.Briggs was born at Warley Wood (or Warleywood) in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire.
His birth is recorded in the Halifax parish register as February 1561 yet this information contradicts a notice by J Mede written at Christ's College Cambridge on 6 February 1630, a few days after Briggs died, which states (see for example [1]):-
Mr Henry Briggs of Oxford, the great mathematic