John Napier was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who usually gets the credit for inventing logarithms. But his contributions to simplifying mathematics and building shorthand ...

Napier’s method of multiplication is a method used to multiply large numbers when you do not have a calculator. Draw a 2 by 2 grid to multiply a 2-digit number by another 2-digit number. Label the ...

Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it.