This book should have changed mathematics forever

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This video’s sponsor Brilliant is a great way to learn more. You can try Brilliant for free for thirty days by visiting https://brilliant.org/WelchLabs and the first 200 subscribers receive 20 percent off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. Modifications to Burgi’s Book I made a couple changes to Burgi’s tables to make this video easier to follow. Burgi’s red numbers are scaled by a factor of ten - I removed this in some locations - also his tables didn’t include any decimal places - this notation had not been developed yet. There are no decimal places in his original work - I added the decimal points in some locations for clarity. Book Recommendation Sections of this video are based on a terrific book by Klaus Truemper - despite it’s terrible cover, it’s a great read with an original viewpoint, and we only covered a small portion here - you can buy a copy on my amazon storefront here: https://amzn.to/3u2Rt7x Special thanks to the Patrons Juan Benet, Ross Hanson, Yan Babitski, AJ Englehardt, Alvin Khaled, Eduardo Barraza, Hitoshi Yamauchi, Jaewon Jung, Mrgoodlight, Shinichi Hayashi, Sid Sarasvati Welch Labs Support on Patreon receive exclusive benefits: https://www.patreon.com/welchlabs Amazon Logarithms Reading List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/welchlabs Watch TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@welchlabs Learn More or Contact: https://www.welchlabs.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/welchlabs X: https://twitter.com/welchlabs References The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables - Klaus Truemper The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets - Martin Campbell-Kelly Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms - John Napier Jost Bürgi's Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen - Kathleen Clark Arithmetic and Geometric Progression Tables - Jost Burgi 1620