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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Havil, Julian, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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