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.
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