john napier
John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He was also inventor of Napier's Bones. Which were multiplication tables written on strips of wood or bones. The invention was used for multiplying, dividing, and taking square roots and cube roots. He also made common the use of the decimal point in math.
William Oughtred contribution in developing computer was the slide rule which is based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier. Before the advent of the pocket calculator, it was the most commonly used calculation tool in science and engineering.
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Napier is A 2nd name :) it originates from scotland. there is a town in new zealand called "napier".
John Napier was famous for his work with logarithms.
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John Napier!!
John Napier in 1614
john napier
John Napier was born, lived, and died in Edinburgh, Scotland. Napier is most famous for being the one to invent logarithms. He attended school at the University of St. Andrews.
in 1614 john Napier invented logarithms and a device called NAPIER,s bones
John Napier.
Logarithms were invented by John Napier who was a mathematician. He invented other things too, so there was no reason why he couldn't invent the logarithms. Logarithms were invented so people could take short cuts to multiplications! :)
logarithms was discovered by John Napier
by inventing Logarithms.