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Classic LNL: Finding Fibonacci
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Keith Devlin from Stanford University argues in his book Finding Fibonacci that the 13thC mathematician made a far greater contribution to Western civilisation than his eponymous sequence. He's been on a crusade to get the world to recognise Fibonacci as the man who introduced Hindu-Arabic numbers to the West.
Originally broadcast in 2017.
251 episodes
Manage episode 426783541 series 2902251
Keith Devlin from Stanford University argues in his book Finding Fibonacci that the 13thC mathematician made a far greater contribution to Western civilisation than his eponymous sequence. He's been on a crusade to get the world to recognise Fibonacci as the man who introduced Hindu-Arabic numbers to the West.
Originally broadcast in 2017.
251 episodes
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