Finding Fibonacci

The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

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Keith Devlin

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Hardback

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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

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

March 21st, 2017

Author

Keith Devlin

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

23 halftones.

Pages

256

Dimensions

140x216x23

ISBN-13

9780691174860

Product ID

26098399

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