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Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm, 23 b/w illus.
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jul-2019
  • Kirjastus: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691192308
  • ISBN-13: 9780691192307
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm, 23 b/w illus.
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jul-2019
  • Kirjastus: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691192308
  • ISBN-13: 9780691192307
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A 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 mathematical ideas at a level ordinary people could understand. Yet Fibonacci was forgotten after his death, and it was not until the 1960s that his true achievements were finally recognized. Drawing on the diary he kept of his quest, Devlin describes the false starts and disappointments, the unexpected turns, and the occasional lucky breaks he encountered in his search. 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.

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[ A] jaunty book.James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Devlin leads a cheerful pursuit to rediscover the hero of 13th-century European mathematics, taking readers across centuries and through the back streets of medieval and modern Italy in this entertaining and surprising history.Publishers Weekly Finding Fibonacci showcases Devlins writerly flair.Davide Castelvecchi, Nature [ Devlin] talks his way into Italian research libraries in search of early manuscripts, photographs all 11 street signs on Via Leonardo Fibonacci in Florence and strives to cultivate a love for numbers in his readers.Andrea Marks, Scientific American Engaging and entertaining.Library Journal Personal and lively.Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society Devlins enthusiasm for his subject is infectious.Tony Mann, Times Higher Education

Frelupe: Sputnik and Calculus 1(4)
Chapter 1 The Flood Plain
5(13)
Chapter 2 The Manuscript
18(17)
Chapter 3 First Steps
35(7)
Chapter 4 The Statue
42(14)
Chapter 5 A Walk along the Pisan Riverbank
56(8)
Chapter 6 A Very Boring Book?
64(8)
Chapter 7 Franci
72(13)
Chapter 8 Publishing Fibonacci: From the Cloister to Amazon.com
85(12)
Chapter 9 Translation
97(19)
Chapter 10 Reading Fibonacci
116(22)
Chapter 11 Manuscript Hunting, Part I (Failures)
138(13)
Chapter 12 Manuscript Hunting, Part II (Success at Last)
151(16)
Chapter 13 The Missing Link
167(14)
Chapter 14 This Will Change the World
181(11)
Chapter 15 Leonardo and the Birth of Modern Finance
192(20)
Chapter 16 Reflections in a Medieval Mirror
212(16)
APPENPIX
Guide to the Chaffers of Liber abbaci
228(8)
Bibliography 236(3)
Index 239
Keith Devlin is a mathematician at Stanford University and cofounder and president of BrainQuake. 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.