Logarithms celebrate their 400th birthday Four centuries ago, John Napier provided human calculators a faster way to multiply ...

A chapter on methods of rough calculation, intended to verify the results obtained by the use of logarithms, forms a valuable addition to the book.

Math is hard, but doesn't have to be unpleasant. This happy little math lesson features a Bob Ross-style mini-lecture on logarithms.

This paper considers factoring integers and finding discrete logarithms, two problems that are generally thought to be hard on classical computers and that have been used as the basis of several ...

The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale for big numbers is actually an admirable way of measuring the world, says Philip Ball.

The aim of this essay is to create a geometrical link between the music theory and the mathematics of the early seventeenth century by studying and comparing diagrams which directly or indirectly ...