Washington Irving Stringham (December 10, 1847 – October 5, 1909) was an American mathematician born in Yorkshire, New York. He was the first person to denote the natural logarithm as ln ( x ) {\\displaystyle \\ln(x)} where x {\\displaystyle x} is its argument. The use of ln ( x ) {\\displaystyle \\ln(x)} in place of log e ( x ) {\\displaystyle \\log _{e}(x)} is commonplace in digital calculators today.
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10 December 1847 Yorkshire, New York
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5 October 1909 (aged 61) Berkeley, California, U.S.
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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