Finding Fibonacci
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2017
256 pages
978-1-4008-8553-4 (ISBN)
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English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
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Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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23 halftones.
23 halftones.
File size
5,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4008-8553-4 (9781400885534)
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Finding Fibonacci
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
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07/2019
Princeton University Press
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Keith Devlin
Finding Fibonacci
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Book
03/2017
Princeton University Press
€34.66
Shipment within 10-20 days
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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.
Content
Prelude
Sputnik and Calculus 1
1 The Flood Plain 5
2 The Manuscript 18
3 First Steps 35
4 The Statue 42
5 A Walk along the Pisan Riverbank 56
6 A Very Boring Book? 64
7 Franci 72
8 Publishing Fibonacci: From the Cloister to Amazon.com 85
9 Translation 97
10 Reading Fibonacci 116
11 Manuscript Hunting, Part I (Failures) 138
12 Manuscript Hunting, Part II (Success at Last) 151
13 The Missing Link 167
14 This Will Change the World 181
15 Leonardo and the Birth of Modern Finance 192
16 Reflections in a Medieval Mirror 213
Appendix
Guide to the Chapters of Liber abbaci 228
Bibliography 236
Index 239
Sputnik and Calculus 1
1 The Flood Plain 5
2 The Manuscript 18
3 First Steps 35
4 The Statue 42
5 A Walk along the Pisan Riverbank 56
6 A Very Boring Book? 64
7 Franci 72
8 Publishing Fibonacci: From the Cloister to Amazon.com 85
9 Translation 97
10 Reading Fibonacci 116
11 Manuscript Hunting, Part I (Failures) 138
12 Manuscript Hunting, Part II (Success at Last) 151
13 The Missing Link 167
14 This Will Change the World 181
15 Leonardo and the Birth of Modern Finance 192
16 Reflections in a Medieval Mirror 213
Appendix
Guide to the Chapters of Liber abbaci 228
Bibliography 236
Index 239
