Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World AUTH-4290898 Author: Barbara Sher

Author: Barbara Sher

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Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World AUTH-4290898 Author: Barbara SherA 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 numbers which, it so happens, he didn't discover Fibonacci's greatest contribution was as an expositor of