John Napier - Lynne Gladstone-Millar

John Napier

Logarithm John
Buch | Softcover
64 Seiten
2003
NMSE - Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-901663-70-9 (ISBN)
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Inventor of Logarithms, John Napier, made one of the greatest advances in the history of mathematics. The invention, of this 16th century Scot was used in calculations until the 1970s. He was also an astronomer of genius and vision and this book is a celebration of a remarkable man.
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 extraordinary 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 calculations that literally changed lives all over the world.

Lynne Gladstone-Millar is a freelance journalist and writer.

An Astonishing World A Privileged Beginning A Very young Student Travel was not for the Faint Hearted The Student comes Home A Country Laird or a Sorcerer? Weapons agains the Spaniards Logarithms - the Quantum Leap The World's First Pocket Calculator Up among the Greats

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.3.2003
Zusatzinfo 30ill.
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 235 mm
Gewicht 144 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10 1-901663-70-1 / 1901663701
ISBN-13 978-1-901663-70-9 / 9781901663709
Zustand Neuware
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