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How ought a Logarithm to be defined?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

Mr. Fletcher begins his article in the January number of the Gazette by giving two reasons why a logarithm ought not to be defined as the index of the power of the base which is equal to the number. But are these reasons well-founded? One is that it does not afford a basis for the more advanced parts of the theory of logarithms. That statement would require a proof that might be very difficult or perhaps impossible to produce.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1931

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References

* Math. Gazette, xi, p. 389 (1923).