Celebrating a misunderstood math miracle: Logarithms turn 400 - O Say Can You See?
English: Portrait of John Napier (1550-1617), the inventor of logarithms; dated 1616; presented to the University of Edinburgh by his great granddaughter Margaret, who became Baroness Napier in 1686. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Celebrating a misunderstood math miracle: Logarithms turn 400 - O Say Can You See? : "The logarithm is 400 this year. Glen Van Brummelen , a fellow in the Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology , explains how logarithms came to be and why they're considered miraculous ." Related articles The Divine Mathematician and His Image-Bearers Meet the Numbers Lady - Rebecca Klemm