John Napier : : Life, Logarithms, and Legacy / / Julian Havil.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter one. Life and Lineage
- Chapter two. Revelation and Recognition
- Chapter three. A New Tool for Calculation
- Chapter four. Constructing the Canon
- Chapter five. Analogue and Digital Computers
- Chapter six. Logistics: The Art of Computing Well
- Chapter seven. Legacy
- Epilogue
- References
- Index