Finding Fibonacci

Name: Finding Fibonacci
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691174860
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The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

Автор: Keith Devlin

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Издател: Princeton University Press

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In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Keith Devlin

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2017

страници

256

EAN

9780691174860

ISBN

0691174865

Enbook ID

14433352

Издател

Princeton University Press

Теглоt

432

Размери

147 x 224 x 23

Пълно описание

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 long forgotten after his death, and it was not until the 1960s that his true achievements were finally recognized. Finding Fibonacci is Devlin's compelling firsthand account of his ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story. Devlin, a math expositor himself, kept a diary of the undertaking, which he draws on here to describe the project's highs and lows, its false starts and disappointments, the tragedies and unexpected turns, some hilarious episodes, and the occasional lucky breaks.

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