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Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Keith Devlin
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Description for Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: PB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 22.
A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, he didn't invent--Fibonacci's greatest contribution was as an expositor of mathematical ideas at a level ordinary people could understand. In 1202, Liber abbaci--the Book of Calculation --introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Yet Fibonacci was ... Read more
A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, he didn't invent--Fibonacci's greatest contribution was as an expositor of mathematical ideas at a level ordinary people could understand. In 1202, Liber abbaci--the Book of Calculation --introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Yet Fibonacci was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
22g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691174860
SKU
V9780691174860
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About Keith Devlin
Keith Devlin is a mathematician at Stanford University and cofounder and president of BrainQuake, an educational technology company that creates mathematics learning video games. His many books include The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern. He is the Math Guy on National Public Radio. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Reviews for Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
In his jaunty book Finding Fibonacci, Keith Devlin sets out to tell the elusive story of the 13th-century mathematician Leonardo of Pisa.
James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Devlin leads a cheerful pursuit to rediscover the hero of 13th-century European mathematics, taking readers across centuries and through the back streets of medieval and modern Italy in this entertaining ... Read more
James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Devlin leads a cheerful pursuit to rediscover the hero of 13th-century European mathematics, taking readers across centuries and through the back streets of medieval and modern Italy in this entertaining ... Read more