How people came up with the natural logarithm and the exponential function #SoME1
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via Reddit r/learnmath thread: Some criminally underwatched math channels on youtube · 84% confidenceReconstructs how Napier, Bürgi, Saint-Vincent and Euler arrived at logarithms and the exponential, from computation tables to areas under the hyperbola, a #SoME1 entry by a research mathematician who stresses rigour.
How mathematicians historically arrived at the natural logarithm and the exponential function.
Video by Daniel Rubin, played through YouTube's embedded player.