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The modern theory and application of logarithms are largely the work of one mathematician working in isolation (which is highly unusual): * https://en.wikipedi
by pjlegato 5y ago
The modern theory and application of logarithms are largely the work of one mathematician working in isolation (which is highly unusual):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_logarithms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_logarithms
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier
- toolslive 5y agoIsaac Newton: His work on calculus, optics and gravity was all done in isolation (the university was closed as a precaution against the plague).
- hermitcrab 5y agoHe supposed to have said "If I have seen further than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." . But this may just have been a mean comment at the expenses of his small-of-stature rival, Hooke. (Newton was both a genius and an arsehole)
- mabbo 5y agoJohn Napier seems to have been an absolute gem of a person. > Another act which Napier is reported to have done, which may have seemed mystical to the locals, was when Napier removed the pigeons from his estate, since they were eating his grain. Napier caught the pigeons by strewing grain laced with alcohol throughout the field, and then capturing the pigeons once they were too drunk to fly away.
- thorin 5y agoIs this the basis for Danny Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl?