The story of the man who introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concept of zero to Europe that transformed business in the late Middle Ages and paved the way for the commercial and cultural explosion of the Renaissance
Keith Devlin was born in Hull. He is a Senior Researcher and Executive Director at Stanford's H-STAR institute, which he co-founded. He is also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network. He is the author of more than twenty-eight books, including The Math Gene. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
The story is extraordinary... A useful reminder of the hold that
dreams of a mystical truth lying just beyond our reach have always
had over mankind
*Observer*
Fascinating ... Devlin presents a convincing argument to show that
Fibonacci did nothing less than start the modern arithmetic
revolution
*Commercial Dispatch*
A convincing case for the immense importance of the work
*Scotsman*
Devlin illuminates one of the most remarkable and underappreciated
episodes in cultural history ... A surprising visit to a forgotten
well-spring of modern thought
*Booklist*
Three cheers for Leonardo Pisano ... A wonderful book for
history-of-science buffs
*Kirkus Reviews*
PRAISE FOR 'LIFE BY NUMBERS'
Not in many, many years have I seen a book nearly as instructive,
enlightening, and sheer fun about the beauty of mathematics. Life
by Numbers is truly superb
*Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem*
A beautiful book ... The aim is not to teach but to entertain, and
it succeeds. The view that mathematics is dull is replaced by an
image of how math can be both interesting and useful
*New Scientist*
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