John Napier : life, logarithms, and legacy /

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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]
Temas:
Napier, John, > 1550-1617.
Napier, John, > 1550-1617
Logarithms.
Mathematicians > Scotland > Biography.
Logarithmes.
Mathématiciens > Écosse > Biographies.
logarithms.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
MATHEMATICS > Arithmetic.
Logarithms
Mathematicians
Scotland
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Life and lineage
  • Revelation and recognition
  • A new tool for calculation
  • Constructing the canon
  • Analogue and digital computers
  • Logistics : the art of computing well
  • Legacy.

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