Finding Fibonacci (Hardcover)
 
作者: Keith Devlin 
分類: European history ,
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 ,
Social & cultural history ,
History of mathematics ,
c 1000 CE to c 1500 ,
Italy  
書城編號: 1265556


售價: $300.00

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出版社: University Press Group Ltd
出版日期: 2017/03/21
尺寸: 227x146x24mm
重量: 0.43 kg
ISBN: 9780691174860

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A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin'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 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. You will also meet the unique individuals Devlin encountered along the way, people who, each for their own reasons, became fascinated by Fibonacci, from the Yale professor who traced modern finance back to Fibonacci to the Italian historian who made the crucial archival discovery that brought together all the threads of Fibonacci's astonishing story.

Fibonacci helped to revive the West as the cradle of science, technology, and commerce, yet he vanished from the pages of history. This is Devlin's search to find him.

Keith Devlin 作者作品表

eBook: Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition (DRM PDF)

Finding Fibonacci (Hardcover)

eBook: Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World (DRM PDF)

eBook: Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (DRM PDF)

Man of Numbers (Paperback)

Man of Numbers (Hardcover)

eBook: Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years (DRM EPUB)

Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution

eBook: Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning (DRM PDF)

Mathematics Education for a New Era (Paperback)

The Numbers Behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics (paperback)

Millennium Problems (Paperback)

Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition (3 New edition) (Paperback)

Maths Gene (Paperback)

The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

eBook: Life By the Numbers (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Mathematics: The New Golden Age (DRM EPUB)

Joy of Sets (Hardcover)

Mathematics (B-Trade Pbk)

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