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Mathematics 2017 Mathematics 2017 press.princeton.edu 1 general 2 analysis 6 algebra & topology 8 discrete math & graph theory | number theory 10 recreational math 11 biology Forthcoming 12 Finding Fibonacci computer science The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World 15 Keith Devlin engineering “A charmingly personal account of Keith Devlin’s long quixotic search to understand the man, Leonardo Bonacci, better known as Fibonacci, as 16 well as the thirteenth-century mathematician’s surprisingly pervasive physics in uence.”—John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy and A Numerate Life “An unusual and fascinating personal account of a modern mathemati- 18 cian’s quest to separate truth from myth and show us the real ‘Fibonacci.’ ” statistics & —Ian Stewart, author of Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers probability | In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval social science mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally a ected the lives of everyone alive 19 today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers—which, history & philosophy it so happens, he didn’t invent—Fibonacci’s greatest contribution was of mathematics as an expositor of mathematical ideas at a level ordinary people could understand. In 1202, Liber abbaci—the “Book of Calculation”—introduced 22 modern arithmetic to the Western world. Yet Fibonacci was long forgotten art & architecture after his death, and it was not until the 1960s that his true achievements were nally recognized. Finding Fibonacci is Devlin’s compelling rsthand account of his ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci’s story. 23 April 2017. 256 pages. 22 halftones. fi ction Cl: 978-0-691-17486-0 $29.95 | £22.95 Catalog cover art: clockwise: Row 1, g. 1: courtesy of Anany Levitin; g. 2: cards and game, c. 1988, 24 1991. Cannei, LLC. All rights reserved. SET and all associated logos and tag lines are registered biography trademarks of Cannei, LLC. 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