1579, Sterling died and then Napier married Agnes Chisholm and had 10 more children. Napier was influenced by fellow mathematicians/inventors; Edmund Gunter, John Speidell, Thomas Urquhart, and Henry Briggs.
Since Napier has impacted math in such a major way, he is looked up to and honored still to this day. He has a college in Scotland named after him; "Edinburg Napier University" and has a crater on the moon named after him; "Napier", most likely due to his love of astronomy and him being from Scotland…
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