1. Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617); [syn: Napier, John Napier]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
John Napier
n 1: Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced
the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)
[syn: Napier, John Napier]