Another myth of genius in the Encyclopedia of Western History is shattered: the priest invented logarithms, decimal points, submarines, tanks, born for Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho...
The big god I want to talk about today is a bit of a cow, known as the "father of logarithm" and one of the top ten mathematical geniuses in the West.
John Napier (1550–1617) was a Scottish mathematician who preceded Lermontov about two hundred years ago.
The West claims that Napier spent a full twenty years on the basis of his predecessors to write a masterpiece that will make him famous, that is, the book "The Wonderful Description of logarithm", also known as "The Description of the Logarithmic Laws of the Stick".
It is said that after the book was published, it was quickly highly praised by a number of celebrities.
Even Engels did not hesitate to praise the beauty of the book "Dialectics of Nature":
"Descartes' Cartesian coordinate system, John Napier's logarithm, Newton and Leibniz's calculus are the three greatest inventions of the seventeenth century."
In the 18th century, the great French mathematician Laplace spoke highly of Napier's contribution to science, especially in astronomy, which was beyond doubt. Effectively improve the computational efficiency of astronomers, in practical effect, it is equivalent to extending the life of astronomers many times.
Napier is said to have found a way to turn complex multiplication operations into fairly simple addition operations.
In order to find the product of the two numbers, he first calculates the artificial numbers of these two numbers and finds their sum, and arranges them in the table, corresponding to the "number of rows". After that, if you require the product of two large numbers, you only need to find the "rows" corresponding to these two numbers, simply add them, and then look up the corresponding product in the logarithmic table according to the new number of rows obtained.
In this way, a lot of calculation work is done in front, saving a lot of time.
Napier was born in 1550 to an aristocratic family in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At the age of 13, he entered the University of St Andrews, but in order to enrich his knowledge, at the age of 16, he began to travel and study in the European continent before graduating from college. At the age of 21, Napier returned to his hometown. [In the Dark Middle Ages, monarchs and populace were illiterate, but strangely, universities representing higher education and wisdom blossomed everywhere in Europe.
In order to make the farmers better and the animals fatter, he personally went to the ground to conduct fertilizer fertilization experiments and studied the ratio of feed. It has also designed and manufactured a water pump.
Mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, military scientists, theologians... Oh, and agricultural experts, biologists, chemists. His time coincided with the religious revolution in Europe, and because Napier had seen more of the world during his years of study abroad, he thought: Well, revolution is very necessary.
So he also expressed his position with actions, not only writing articles attacking the Old Church (Catholicism), but also taking the initiative to study submarines and armored carriages (tanks) to resist the enemy's attack when he heard the news that Spain was coming to attack.
In 1594, napier is said to have used a unique method to construct a logarithmic method, inspired by the correspondence between the terms of the equal ratio series and the equal difference series, in order to find a convenient method for calculating spherical triangles.
But at that time, the concept of the index was not perfect, and the index did not have a symbol, so there was no concept of "bottom". So he called the logarithm "man-made number."
In June 1614, Napier published his first logarithmic monograph in Edinburgh, The Wonderful Logarithmic Law Instructions, which clarified the logarithm principle, which was later known as Napier logarithm.
However, a closer look reveals that the person who transformed the number and made it widely circulated was not Napier, but his friend Henry Briggs. John Napier studied only "natural logarithms", while Henry Briggs studied the logarithm based on 10, the "common logarithm".
Previously, it has been specifically said that Copernicus, Tycho, and Kepler are all fictional characters of the missionaries, Kepler was created by Rojak, the copyright of Copernicus belongs to John Tang, and Tycho was created by Long Huamin.
So, "Kepler noticed the work of a British mathematician, John Napier, when he made astronomical observations", can this really be true?
The missionaries grew up in China, knew that the observatory observation work was by no means a few people can do, and there were a lot of cumbersome calculations, and realized that they had to find a way to solve these problems, so they packaged Father Napier as a mathematician, an astronomer, and the father of logarithms.
By reducing the massive amount of computational work through the characteristics of the number, so as to make the pseudo-history compiled by oneself appear more real and not easily seen through.
When Napier invented logarithm to simplify multiplication and division to addition and subtraction, he did not find any connection with the small e. However, in the appendix to the logarithmic work published in 1618, he went so far as to make God calculate a list of natural logarithms using the small e as the bottom!
It is true that logarithms can be based on arbitrary numbers, but when Napier had not really established the logarithmic arithmetic at that time, he calculated the logarithmic table based on e???
In fact, Napier did not know that the current logarithm is actually an exponential inverse operation.
The West claims that Father Napier invented logarithm out of a simple idea: to transform complex multiplication operations into very simple addition operations. Then, using this line of thinking, Napier invented Napier chip.
Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, French 19th-century improved version of "Napier Counting", pictured.
However, why did the "Arithmetic Table" of the Warring States Period in China also use this concept to make a calculation chip as early as Napier about 2000 years ago? Moreover, China's calculation of nine chips + abacus is actually "Napier chip"?
There is also xue Fengzuo, a famous astronomical almanac in the Qing Dynasty, who is known as the "head of a generation of domain people", why does he also have a logarithmic table? According to Western parlance, Xue Fengzuo must have been a student of the missionary, it must be! Hegel obviously copied Lao Tzu, but he also framed him in turn.
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