Mathematician:John Napier
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Mathematician
Scots mathematician famous for his development of natural logarithms.
Nationality
Scottish
History
- Born: 1550, Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Died: 4 April 1617, Edinburgh, Scotland
Theorems and Definitions
- Napier's Bones
- Natural (Napierian) logarithms
- Napier's Constant (better known as Euler's Number)
- Napier's Rules for Right Angled Spherical Triangles
- Napier's Analogies
Results named for John Napier can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for John Napier can be found here.
Publications
- 1593: Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John
- 1614: Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (in which Napierian logarithms appear)
- 1617: Rabdologiae (posthumous) (in which Napier's Bones are described)
Also known as
John Napier's name is spelt variously as Jhone, and Napeir, Nepair, Nepeir, Neper, Napare, Naper, Naipper.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Napier, John (1550-1617)
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Napier, John (1550-1617)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Napier, John (1550-1617)
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $5$: Eternal Triangles: Logarithms
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Napier, John (1550-1617)
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Napier, John (1550-1617)