John Napier

Name: John Napier

Born: 1550 in Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland

Death: April 4, 1617 (Age: 66-67)

Computer-related contributions

• A Scottish landowner, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and astrologer best known as the discoverer of logarithms.
• Made the decimal point common in arithmetic and mathematics.
• He was also the inventor of "Napier's bones."

Significant publications

• A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593).
• Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio (1619).