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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 University Press
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2005252 |