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Lecture 1: Logarithms without Exponents

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Topics covered: The concept of the natural logarithm; the notion of the rate of change being proportional to the amount opresent; the general concept of a logarithmic function; ln x in terms of differential and integral calculus; the meaning of the number e as the base of the natural logarithms.

Instructor/speaker: Prof. Herbert Gross