Leonard Of Pisa And The New Mathematics Of The Middle Ages by David T. Gies
A concise intellectual biography of Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) that traces his travels across the Mediterranean, his encounter with Hindu–Arabic numerals and practical arithmetic, and his effort to synthesize and disseminate those methods for merchants and scholars; it situates his seminal work in its commercial and scholarly contexts, examines the problems and algorithms he presented (from commercial calculation to the famous rabbit problem), and follows how these new techniques slowly spread through medieval Europe to transform calculation, commerce, and mathematical practice.
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