PublishedPrinceton University Press, June 2019 |
ISBN9780691192307 |
FormatSoftcover, 256 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 14cm |
A mathematician'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, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Although most famous for the Fibonacci num