The Man of Numbers
Subtitle: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
Publisher: Walker & Company; Walker & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780802778123
Description: "The untold story of Leonardo of Pisa, the medieval mathematician who introduced Arabic numbers to the West and helped launch the modern era."--Page [2] of dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: Your days are numbered; title: A bridge of numbers; title: A child of Pisa; title: A mathematical journey; title: Sources; title: Liber abbaci; title: Fame; title: The Fibonacci aftermath; title: Whose revolution?; title: Fibonacci's legacy : in stone, parchment, and rabbits