The week’s question
was who was John Napier? John Napier was
a Scottish Mathematician. He published
the first tables of logarithms in 1614.
He was interested in (as a hobby) spherical trigonometry and computation. His logarithms were defined geometrically
rather than in terms of a base.
The question (&
answer) were found on p. 185 of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics by Christopher Clapham. The book was
published by Oxford University Press in 1996.
