(Re)Humanizing Mathematics with Story A Review of Keith Devlin’s Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

Authors

Cynthia Nicol

Volume

20

Issue

1-3

Abstract

Indigenous scholar Richard van Camp of the Dogrib Nation shares how “a great story reminds us of what it means to be human” (van Camp in Galloway, 2020). Keith Devlin’s book, Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World, does just that – reminding us what it means to be human, but in this case through mathematics. In Finding Fibonacci, Devlin shares his story and journey to learn more about mathematician Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci) and Leonardo’s manuscript Liber Abbaci (Book of Calculation), one of the first manuscripts written on practical arithmetic in Western Europe, and what Devlin argues “would change the world” (p. 17).

First Page

152

Last Page

161

Recommended Citation

Nicol, Cynthia (2023) "(Re)Humanizing Mathematics with Story A Review of Keith Devlin’s Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World," The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 20 : No. 1 , Article 18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1600
Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol20/iss1/18

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.54870/1551-3440.1600

Publisher

University of Montana, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library