Caricature of the Scottish mathematician and inventor of logarithms John Napier (1550- 1617). Napier pursued mathematics as a hobby,being more interested in religious controversy. In his long study of imaginary roots he developed decimal notation in addition to a set of logarithms. For this he chose the transcendental number e (approximately 2.717) as the base. These are known as Naperian,or natural,logarithms and are most relevant to exponential systems. His logarithms greatly helped Kepler in his calculations of planetary motion | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Brown, Gary |
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