John Napier : Life, Logarithms, and Legacy /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | Havil, Julian (Autor) |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Course Book |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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