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...
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014] |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |