#OnThisDay #SpaceShuttle #Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere (2003) resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.
Birth Anniversary of Emilio Segrè (1905) - #NobelPrize winner and group leader for the #Manhattan Project. He discovered the elements #Technetium and #Astatine.
Birth Anniversary of John Napier (1550) - best known as the discoverer of #Logarithms.
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1 print : color ; sheet 57 x 44 cm (poster format) | Poster shows an advertisement for the singing ensemble Logarhythms; a group of shadowy figures appear to be singing.
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I say, that's handy!
Just like Magnitude. What could be simpler?
In 1614, a Scottish landowner named John Napier quietly changed the world of numbers. You might not know his name, but if you’ve ever used a calculator, studied science, or worked with data, you’ve crossed paths with his legacy. This was the age of gunpowder, trade routes, and early astronomy. Mathematicians, navigators, and gunners all needed to do vast and complex calculations by hand. Think six-digit multiplication, every day, with pen and paper. There were no calculators, no Excel spreadsheets, no shortcuts. Mistakes weren’t just annoying. They were dangerous. A miscalculation in battle could cost lives. In navigation, it could send ships hundreds of miles off course. Napier saw the toll this took and set out to find a better way. Over years of painstaking work on his estate near Edinburgh, he developed a system that turned multiplication into addition, division into subtraction, and powers into products. That’s the core idea behind logarithms. To most people, that sounds dry. But to the working minds of the 17th century, it was a miracle. A huge slab of drudgery had been lifted off their shoulders. He published his findings in a dense, Latin-heavy book titled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. It wasn't written for the average person, but those who understood its value saw it immediately. The mathematician Henry Briggs, a professor at Oxford, traveled hundreds of miles to meet Napier in person. Briggs was so overwhelmed by the discovery that he reportedly wept with joy. Together, Napier and Briggs refined the system and laid the foundation for what would eventually become slide rules, early computers, and the complex logarithmic functions still used in science today. John Napier died in 1617. He was buried in St. Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh. | 49 comments on LinkedIn
The Lost Art of Logarithms
https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ – Fantástica iniciativa con una cantidad ingente de información sobre los logaritmos
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