Mathematician
John Napier was born in Merchiston Tower in 1550. He was born during one of the most exciting periods of Scottish and European history. Napier was known as the ‘Marvellous Merchiston’. This was a title that many people said that he well deserved. He got this title for his “genius and imaginative vision encompassed a number of fields.” At the age of thirteen John went into college at St. Salvator’s College in St. Andrews. John Napier was a philosopher and a mathematician. He is the inventor of Logarithms and the inventor of the decimal point. He made one of the single greatest advances in the history of mathematicians. It is said “without Napier’s work on logarithms it is difficult to imagine how Kepler and Newton could have made th
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