Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

by Keith Devlin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691174865
• ISBN13: 9780691174860
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"