Irving Stringham
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 115 years ago |
| Date of birth | December 10,1847 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Yorkshire |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | October 5,1909 |
| Died | Berkeley |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Academic advisor | James Joseph Sylvester |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University |
| Harvard College | |
| Nationality | American |
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| ID | 1315655 |
Irving Stringham Life story
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(x) is commonplace in digital calculators today.
