Logarithms Quotes

3 quotes by 3 authors

• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation… — Thomas Jefferson
• Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms." — John Edensor Littlewood

Who Wrote These Logarithms Quotes

3 authors contributed a total of 3 Logarithms Quotes as follows:

• 1 Logarithms Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Logarithms Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace
• 1 Logarithms Quote by John Edensor Littlewood