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MATHEMATICIAN

Henry Briggs

1561 - 1630

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Henry Briggs (1 February 1561 – 26 January 1630) was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Briggs has received more than 5,915 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Briggs is the 211th most popular mathematician (up from 218th in 2019), the 1,031st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,088th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henry Briggs ranks 211 out of 823Before him are Paolo Ruffini, Autolycus of Pitane, Theodorus of Cyrene, Willem de Sitter, S. R. Ranganathan, and Élie Cartan. After him are Xu Guangqi, Hermann Schwarz, John Horton Conway, Tullio Levi-Civita, Pedro Nunes, and Hugo Steinhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Henry Briggs ranks 6Before him are Francis Bacon, Jacopo Peri, Luis de Góngora, Santorio Santorio, and Katō Kiyomasa. After him are Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Ii Naomasa, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Thomas Fincke, Adriaan van Roomen, and Mary Sidney. Among people deceased in 1630, Henry Briggs ranks 5Before him are Johannes Kepler, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases, and Yuan Chonghuan. After him are Johann Schein, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Fede Galizia, Gioachino Greco, Yamada Nagamasa, Esaias van de Velde, and Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Briggs ranks 1,031 out of 7,765Before him are Samuel Bellamy (1689), Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506), Colin McRae (1968), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), and Edith Cavell (1865). After him are Charles Lightoller (1874), James Meade (1907), Alexander II of Scotland (1198), Bob Hope (1903), Samuel Butler (1612), and Roger Daltrey (1944).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Henry Briggs ranks 22Before him are William Oughtred (1574), Arthur Cayley (1821), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), James Gregory (1638), Colin Maclaurin (1698), and Michael Atiyah (1929). After him are John Horton Conway (1937), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), George Atwood (1745), Thomas Simpson (1710), and William George Horner (1786).