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Could u give me a short I main with it in one bage please the persons life and explanation of mathematics on denoted pages (history of mathematics )https://atiekubaidillah.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/a-history-of-mathematics-3rded.pdf Logarithms John Napier (or Neper, who published his description of 1614, was a Scottish laird, the Baron of Merchiston, who managed his large estates, championed Protestantism, and wrote on varied topics He was interested only in certain aspects of mathematics, chiefly those relating to computation and trigonometry. "Napier's rods" or "bones" were sticks on which multiplication tables were carved in a form ready to be applied to lattice multiplication; "Napier's analogies" and "Napier's rule of circular parts" were devices to aid the memory in connection with spherical trigonometry. Napier tells us that he had been working on his invention of logarithms for twenty years before he published his results, a statement that would place the origin of his ideas about 1594. He evidently had been thinking of the sequences, which had been published now and then, of successive powers of a given number-as in Stifel's Arithmetica Integra fifty years earlier and as in the works of Archimedes. In such sequences, it was obvious that sums and differences of indices of the powers corresponded to products and quotients of the powers themselves, but a sequence of

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