“[L]ogarithms are one of the most disorderly battlegrounds in mathematical history. ... [A]s adjudicated in 1914... Napier's priority ...is undisputed; J. Bürgi ...independently invented logarithms and constructed a table between 1603 and 1611, while "Napier worked on logarithms probably as early as 1594 ...; therefore, Napier began working on logarithms probably much earlier than Bürgi."”

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