Remembering John Napier and His Logarithms
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2002-05-20
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This article describes John Napier's original defintion of logarithms and presents his method of tabulation for the first logarithmic table. Napier's logarithms are found to have an intimate relationship with the natural exponential function but predates the work of Euler by about a hundred years.
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Napier, logarithms
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M. Lexa, "Remembering John Napier and His Logarithms," IEEE Potentials Magazine, 2002.