John Napier : : Life, Logarithms, and Legacy / / Julian Havil.
John Napier (1550-1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms-an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the slide rule: the two would serve humanity as the principal means of calculation until the mid-1970s. Yet, d...
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Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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