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How Natural Is The Natural Logarithm?

Posted on March 7, 2016 by fbenedictus

I want to show in this post that the natural logarithm is not natural – it is not a characteristic of objective nature. The natural logarithm pops up everywhere in science: biology, sociology, economics… and the list goes on. Every student of … Continue reading →

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