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. 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