Math is hard, but doesn't have to be unpleasant. This happy little math lesson features a Bob Ross-style mini-lecture on logarithms.

Logarithms are most succinctly described as a shortcut in mathematics. For example, multiplication is basically a shortcut for addition and exponents are a shortcut for multiplication.

Is computational science mathematics?; 400 years of logarithms; baking schemes, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 88, No. 1 (February 2015), pp. 79-80 ...