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e的故事(国外英语资料) John Napier Look at the practice of mathematics, the most troublesome is the large number of multiplication, division, square and cubic, calculate particularly difficult and troublesome, so I started thinking what clever good method can solve these problems. -- John Napier, the description of the wonderful logarithmic table, [1] (1614) In the history of science, there are few abstract mathematical concepts that are so popular with the scientific community as logarithms. It is hard to imagine that the genius was created by the seemingly unreliable man named John Napier. [2] John Napier in 1550 (date unknown) was born in Scotland Edinburgh near the town of Mei Qi Princeton (Merchiston Castle), Fort Archibald Napier (Archibald Napier) and his first wife Janet Boswell (Janet Bothwell) son. Details of Johns early life are now unknown, but only when he was 13 years old, he was sent to St. University of St. Andrews (Andrews University) to study religion and lived abroad for a while. In 1571, John returned to his hometown and Elizabeth Sterling (Elizabeth Stirling) married, they later had two sons. Elizabeth died in 1579, followed by John and Agnes Chizem (Agnes Chisholm) married, two people had ten children, including second sons later became John finishing and writing paper of Robert Napier (Robert Napier). In 1608, when Mr. Archibald died, John returned to Fort Mechi Houstton, and became the fort eighth Lord, until his death. [3] Napiers early career had little to do with his later career in mathematics. At that time, he was keen on religion and was a religious activist. As an avid and staunch opponent of the Protestant Pope, he published his views on the new book discovery of St. Johns revelation, must be directed at the Catholic Church, the Pope of Rome is accused of antichrist, and Scotland king James La (later to become king James Thi of England) and the Royal clear in the court Catholics, atheists and non believers [4]. At the same time, he predicted th