Name: John Napier: Logarithm John (en Inglés)
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Author: Lynne Gladstone-Millar
ISBN: 9781905267668

portada John Napier: Logarithm John (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Nms

Autor

Lynne Gladstone-Millar

Categoría

Ciencia y Matemáticas

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1905267665

ISBN13

9781905267668

John Napier: Logarithm John (en Inglés)

Lynne Gladstone-Millar (Autor) · Nms · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "John Napier: Logarithm John (en Inglés)"

When John Napier published his invention of logarithms in 1614 he was announcing one of the greatest advances in the history of mathematics, and log tables were used universally until the mid 1970s. With his Rabdologia, an ingenious calculating tool composed of numbered rods which came to be known as 'Napier's Bones', he enabled people in the marketplace to do multiplication sums without knowing any multiplication tables. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this most extrordinary man was that his great inventions were made without the stimulus of talking to other mathematicians in mainstream Europe. Working away in comparative isolation in a tower house in Scotland, Napier produced methods of calculation that literally changed lives all over the world. He is the father of the slide-rule and the grandfather of today's calculators. Despite his achievements, he remains curiously uncelebrated, and this absorbing story of his life aims to give John Napier his true status. This new edition has been redesigned in a new format and has a new cover.