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The Man of Numbers
Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
By Devlin, Keith
- ISBN
- 978-0-80277-812-3
- Publisher
- Walker
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Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Devlin, noted mathematician (Stanford Univ.) and author of more than 30 books (The Language of Mathematics The Math Gene), tells the fascinating story of Fibonacci's mathematical and cultural legacy. Leonardo of Pisa (1170–1240), called Fibonacci by a historian many centuries after his life, was inspired by the newly merging influences of Indian, Hindu-Arabic, and Western number systems. He not only introduced to the West the number sequence 0, 1, 1...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
