耐普尔是17世纪英国著名的数学家,他于1550年出生在苏格兰首府爱丁堡,从小喜欢数学和科学。耐普尔对数学最主要的贡献是发明了对数,他在1614年著的《奇妙的对数规律的描述》一书中,叙述了对数的性质,后又详细说明了对数计算和制造对数表的方法,对简化数字计算起了重要作用。有个叫拉普 Nabil, a famous English mathematician in the 17th century, was born in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland in 1550 and loved mathematics and science from an early age. Niepper’s primary contribution to mathematics was the invention of logarithms. In his book The Fantastic Description of Logarithmic Law of 1614, he described the nature of logarithms, and then detailed logarithm calculation and manufacture Logarithmic table method, to simplify the numerical calculation has played an important role. There is a name Lapu