Irving Stringham
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Irving Stringham
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Washington Irving Stringham was an American mathematician born in Yorkshire, New York. He was the first person to denote the natural logarithm as ln where x is its argument. The use of ln in place of log e is commonplace in digital calculators today. Stringham graduated from Harvard College in 1877. He earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1880. His dissertation was titled Regular Figures in N-dimensional Space under his advisor James Joseph Sylvester. In 1881 he was in Schwartzb
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American mathematician
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