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Author Devlin, Keith J.

Title The man of numbers : Fibonacci's arithmetic revolution / Keith Devlin.

Publication Info. New York : Walker & Co., 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  512.72 DEVLIN    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. FIBONACCI    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  512.72 DEVLIN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  510 DEV    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B FIBONACCI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  B FIBONACCI, LEONARDO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 FIBONACCI, LEO    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B FIBONACCI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  512.72 DEVLIN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG FIBONACCI, LEONARDO    Check Shelf

Edition First U.S. edition.
Description viii, 183 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
Summary Leonardo of Pisa (better known today as Fibonacci) had learned the Hindu-Arabic number system when he traveled to North Africa as a teenager...[and introduced this much simpler method of calculation to Europe] in his book Liber abbaci (The book of calculation) thus making him the greatest mathematician of the Middle Ages.
Subject Fibonacci, Leonardo, approximately 1170-approximately 1240.
Mathematicians -- Biography.
Fibonacci numbers.
Mathematics in nature.
ISBN 9780802778123 hardcover
0802778127 hardcover
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