John napier

John Napier of Merchiston, nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird o...

John Napier (1550 - 1617)

Scientist. A Scottish mathematician, he invented logarithms and popularized the use of the decimal point. His home, Merchiston Tower, lies at the center of Napier University, which was named after him.

"There is nothing so troublesome to mathematical practice ... than multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers ... I began therefore to consider ... how I might remove those hindrances." John Napier - scientist & mathematician. ~Napier's Bones-Lattice Multiplication Blog on Desktop Learning Adventures~

John Napier was a famous Scottish mathematician who is best known for his invention of logarithms which are used to help with mathematical calculations. He is also credited with bringing the decimal point into common use. Early Life and Education: John Napier was born into a wealthy family on February 1 in 1550 in Edinburgh,

John Napier, a Scottish mathematician, inventor, astronomer, and scientist, introduced logarithms in his book Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio in 1614.

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John Napier - at the Museum

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This was a popular and portable calculation aid that reduced multiplication and division to a series of additions and subtractions. It used a table-based calculation method that probably originated in India in the Middle Ages.