History+of+The+Logarithm

= __The History of the Logarithm __ =
 * =//**Who were the mathematicians responsible for inventing logarithms?**//=
 * - There is one man who is responsible for the invention of the logarithm. That man is the Scotsman, John Napier. **

 - Logarithms helped to simplify and speed up math in a time when there were no calculators. There was a need for a huge number of calculations to create tables, many of them for navigational purposes where similar calculations needed to be repeated many times.
 * **//What reason led John Napier to invent logarithms? //**

- The possibility of recognizing logarithms as exponents was first recognized by __John Wallis in 1685__ and by __Johann Bernoulli in 1694__, even though John Napierand Henry Biggs first developed the common logarithm as early as 1624. So for 80 years, it was used without being understood.
 * =**Who was the mathematician responsible for adapting logarithms into the system that we recognize today? **=


 * __Nepier's "e" __

 - After π, e is probably the most well known mathematical constant. Everyone uses e to denote 2.718...; in fact, it is often referred to as Euler’s number. However, some people, notably the Brits, refer to it as Napier’s constant. How can something so universally known have two different names? Leonhard Euler is traditionally credited with naming this constant, and thus often assumed to be its discoverer. How and why mathematical objects get named after people, while others do not, is often a quirk of history. In our case, the story of e does not start with Euler; it actually ends with him. The trail back to the first appearance of what we call Euler’s number is filled with many interesting people and sidetracks along the way.