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FINDING FIBONACCI
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Fibonacci, whose 1202 book Liber abbaci quite literally changed the world and affected the lives of everyone alive today, introduced Arabic numerals to the West. Devlin's project took nearly ten years to complete.
Devlin was drawn to the Fibonacci historical detective story by a recognition that his own career was very similar to Leonardo's, to a degree that only became deeper and more profound the further he went into the historical research. Now in FINDING FIBONACCI, he takes the reader behind the scenes of that ten-year detective project, with all of its highs, lows, frustrations, false starts, unexpected turns, tragedies, amusements, and occasional lucky breaks. If you thought that writing a medieval history of science book is mostly a matter of spending hours in archives, this book will show just how far from reality that perception is.
The recent success of Edward Frenkel's Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality and Jordan Ellenberg's How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking are just the most recent titles to show there is strong interest in mathematics trade books that adopt a strong first-person perspective, incorporate the life and reflections of the writer, and describe what it is to do mathematics for a living.
Dr. Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR institute (Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research), a co-founder of Stanford's Media X networka campuswide research network focused on the design and use of interactive technologiesand a Senior Researcher in Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). NPR's "Math Guy," he is the author of more than twenty-eight books, including The Math Gene.
Devlin was drawn to the Fibonacci historical detective story by a recognition that his own career was very similar to Leonardo's, to a degree that only became deeper and more profound the further he went into the historical research. Now in FINDING FIBONACCI, he takes the reader behind the scenes of that ten-year detective project, with all of its highs, lows, frustrations, false starts, unexpected turns, tragedies, amusements, and occasional lucky breaks. If you thought that writing a medieval history of science book is mostly a matter of spending hours in archives, this book will show just how far from reality that perception is.
The recent success of Edward Frenkel's Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality and Jordan Ellenberg's How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking are just the most recent titles to show there is strong interest in mathematics trade books that adopt a strong first-person perspective, incorporate the life and reflections of the writer, and describe what it is to do mathematics for a living.
Dr. Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR institute (Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research), a co-founder of Stanford's Media X networka campuswide research network focused on the design and use of interactive technologiesand a Senior Researcher in Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). NPR's "Math Guy," he is the author of more than twenty-eight books, including The Math Gene.
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Published 2017-04-01 by Princeton University Press |