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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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