Intro To Logarithms After The Meltdown
History and Overview
2010-03-02 v4
Abstract
This work is an attempt to 'reconstruct' logarithms in the hypothetical case that mankind has suffered a catastrophe through which all repositories of (mathematical as well as other) knowledge are lost, with the exception of simple arithmetic operations. It turns out that this is possible without re-inventing calculus!
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.1047,
title = {Intro To Logarithms After The Meltdown},
author = {David A. de Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1047},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, informal write-up due to subject matter resubmission due to correction of typo and significant lengthening since first submission