Celebrating a misunderstood math miracle: Logarithms turn 400 - O Say Can You See?

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English: Portrait of John Napier (1550-1617), ...
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."





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