John Napier

2. Napier’s nationality
3. place of birth
5. how old was Napier when he died
6. He started his education at the age of what?
8. who inspired Napier
10. Napier won what awards for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Cats, Starlight Express, Les Misérables and Sunset Boulevard.
11. The power to which a number must be raised to get other values
12. John Napier was nicknamed what?
16. Napier invented several portable devices to use as what
18. known as the card abacus, used as a calculating machine
19. He helped to introduce and popularize the what?
20. Napier was the what Laird of Merchiston
21. John Napier’s brother’s name
22. Napier’s mom’s name
23. a method to speed up arithmetic, used to facilitate multiplication and division
24. place of education

1. special arrangements were made for the principal of the university, who, to take care of him personally
4. what year did Napier become famous
7. What was the mechanical calculating aid Napier designed
9. his cause of death
13. what year did Napier invent logarithms
14. John Napier’s wife’s name
15. the name of the Scottish nobleman who loved mathematics
17. The additive binary numeral systems