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John Napier - College Term Paper

John Napier

was a Scottish Mathematician who was born in Merchiston
Castle in Edinburgh in the year 1550. He briefly attended St. Andrew's
University, but for some unknown reason, left without obtaining a degree,
which didn't seem to have any relevance to him. He returned home in 1571 as
a scholar competent in Greek. He was an ardent Presbyterian who wrote A
Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, the first Scottish
interpretation of the bible, in 1593 to demonstrate that the Catholic Church
was the beast. He was interested in mathematics at an early age and set forth
the concept of logarithms and published the first table of them. While doing
this, he also systematized ...

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Added: 1/27/2008 09:35:01 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 184
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