The life and works of John Napier

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0zbMATH Open1365.01001OpenAlexW2593574783WikidataQ95746718 ScholiaQ95746718MaRDI QIDQ2963532FDOQ2963532

Brian Rice, Alexander Corrigan, Enrique A. Gonzalez-Velasco

Publication date: 14 February 2017

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0

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zbMATH Keywords

logarithmsNapier's bones\textit{Rabdologia}

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to history and biography (01-00)

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