"The idea of constructing a table in which the logarithm of unity was zero originated with Napier. Napier and Briggs never thought of logarithms as exponents of a base. ... It was not till considerably later that our modern definition of a logarithm as an exponent was put forward by such mathematicians as , 1684; , 1742; , 1748, 1770."
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Raymond Clare Archibald
Raymond Clare Archibald (7 October 1875 – 26 July 1955) was a Canadian-American mathematician and historian of mathematics. In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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