Table of Logarithms and Anti-logarithms (Four Figures), 1 to 10,000. Arranged by Major-Gen. J. C. Hannyngton. Pp. iv + 41. (London: C. and E. Layton, n.d.). Price 1s ...

THE publication of these tables helps to mark a change in the use of logarithms, both for teaching and practical purposes. Nowadays most teachers use four-figure tables for teaching purposes, even in ...

Log tables, invaluable in science, industry and commerce for 350 years, have been consigned to the scrap heap. But logarithms remain at the core of science, as a wide range of physical phenomena ...

This is Norman Albree's pilot model for a two-sided circular logarithmic chart. The side labeled A has a double logarithmic scale arranged in a spiral of seven turns. Its outer edge is marked from 1 ...

What a difference a century makes. In 1914 the most prominent historians of mathematics gathered to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of a great historical figure. Now, in 2014, barely a ...