Henry briggs long division

How did henry briggs die
Henry briggs pronunciation
Henry briggs logarithm table

•

Henry Perronet Briggs

English painter

Henry Perronet BriggsRA (1793 – 18 January 1844) was an English painter of portraits and historical scenes.^[1]^[2]

Life

Briggs was born at Walworth, the son of John Hobart Briggs, a post office official and Mary nee Oldham. He was a Great grandson of Vincent Perronet.His cousin was Amelia Opie (née Alderson), the wife of artist John Opie (whose portrait was later painted by Briggs). While still at school in Epping he sent two engravings to the Gentleman's Magazine and in 1811 he entered as a student at the Royal Academy, London, where he began to exhibit in 1814. From that time onwards until his death he was a constant exhibitor at the annual exhibitions of the Academy, as well as the British Institution, his paintings being for the most part historical in subject. After his election as a Royal Academician (RA) in 1832 he devoted his attention almost exclusively to portraiture.

Briggs died of tuberculosis in London on 18 January 1844, aged 50 or 51. The lease to his home in Bruton Street, Berkel

•

Quick Info

Born

February 1561
Warleywood, Yorkshire, England

Died

26 January 1630
Oxford, England

Summary

Henry Briggs was was an English mathematician who published tables of Napier's logarithm and was the man most responsible for scientists' acceptance of logarithms.

Biography

Henry Briggs was the man most responsible for scientists' acceptance of logarithms. He is of great importance in the development of mathematics but, as Hill writes in [8]:-

... significant though Briggs was as a mathematician in his own right, his greatest importance was as a contact and public relations man.

Briggs was born at Warley Wood (or Warleywood) in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire. His birth is recorded in the Halifax parish register as February 1561 yet this information contradicts a notice by J Mede written at Christ's College Cambridge on 6 February 1630, a few days after Briggs died, which states (see for example [1]):-

Mr Henry Briggs of Oxford, the great mathematician, is lately dead, at 74 years of age.

If Mede were correct then Briggs would have been born in 1

•

Henry Briggs (mathematician)

British mathematician (1561–1630)

Henry Briggs (1 February 1561 – 26 January 1630) was an Englishmathematician 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. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD.^[1]

Briggs was a committed Puritan^[2]^[3] and an influential professor in his time.^[4]

Personal life

Briggs was born at Daisy Bank, Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, England. After studying Latin and Greek at a local grammar school, he entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1577, and graduated in 1581.^[5] In 1588, he was elected a Fellow of St John's. In 1592, he was made reader of the physical lecture founded by Thomas Linacre; he also read some of the mathematical lectures. During this period, he took an interest in navigation and astronomy, collaborating with Edward Wright.

In 1596, he became first profess