1 Mar
2015
1 Mar
'15
8:16 p.m.
I thought "ln" was invented by the French, maybe even Napier, standing for logarithme naturale. --Dan
On Mar 1, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Victor S. Miller <victorsmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
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Some mathematicians disapprove of this notation [ln for log_e]. In his 1985 autobiography, Paul Halmos criticized what he considered the "childish ln notation," which he said no mathematician had ever used.[13] The notation was invented by Irving Stringham, a mathematician.[14][15]