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Henry Briggs (mathematician)
Henry Briggs
(February 1561 – 26 January 1630) was an
English
mathematician
notable for changing the
original logarithms
invented by
John Napier
into
common (base 10) logarithms
, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour.
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