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Excerpt from Napier: Tercentenary Memorial Volume
These communications naturally fall into two groups, according as they treat of the life and work of Napier himself, or deal with subsequent developments of the logarithmic idea which will ever be associated with the name of the Baron of Merchiston.
From the historic point of view the former group will be found particularly interesting. The various contri butions have been prepared absolutely independently, each author following out his own line of thought without any knowledge of the intentions of the other contributors. Inspired though these essays are by consideration of the life and work of the same great man, and based largely upon the same limited set of facts, they show a surprising diversity both in point of view and mode of treatment. They are a striking tribute to the fertility of the idea first promulgated by Napier. At the same time they focus attention anew upon the authoritative statements in the writings of Napier and his contemporaries, and dispose once and for all of certain misapprehensions which have found currency in mathematical literature.
The remaining communications deal with a great variety of topics, the one common feature being calculation.
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These communications naturally fall into two groups, according as they treat of the life and work of Napier himself, or deal with subsequent developments of the logarithmic idea which will ever be associated with the name of the Baron of Merchiston.
From the historic point of view the former group will be found particularly interesting. The various contri butions have been prepared absolutely independently, each author following out his own line of thought without any knowledge of the intentions of the other contributors. Inspired though these essays are by consideration of the life and work of the same great man, and based largely upon the same limited set of facts, they show a surprising diversity both in point of view and mode of treatment. They are a striking tribute to the fertility of the idea first promulgated by Napier. At the same time they focus attention anew upon the authoritative statements in the writings of Napier and his contemporaries, and dispose once and for all of certain misapprehensions which have found currency in mathematical literature.
The remaining communications deal with a great variety of topics, the one common feature being calculation.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Cargill Gilston Knott
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ISBN - 9780266838852
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Page Count - 482
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