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In 1202, a 32-year-old Italian done one of the very most influential books ever, which unveiled modern arithmetic to European European countries. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and taken to North Africa by Muslim professionals, the Hindu-Arabic system helped convert the West into the dominant pressure in science, technology, and business, abandoning Muslim cultures which got long known it but got didn't see its probable. The young Italian, Leonardo of Pisa (better known today as Fibonacci), got learned the Hindu quantity system when he traveled to North Africa with his father, a customs agent. The e book he created was Liber abbaci, the "Book of Calculation", and the trend that followed its publication was substantial. Arithmetic managed to get possible for ordinary people to trade goods, convert currencies, and keep accurate records of belongings more readily than previously. Liber abbaci's publication led right to large-scale international business and the technological trend of the Renaissance. Yet despite the ubiquity of his discoveries, Leonardo of Pisa remains an enigma. His name is best known today in association with an exercise in Liber abbaci whose solution gives surge to a series of quantities - the Fibonacci series - used by some to forecast the surge and show up of financial market segments, and evident in myriad biological structures. One of the great mathematics popularizers of the time, Keith Devlin recreates the life and long lasting legacy of forgotten genius, and along the way makes clear how central quantities and mathematics are to our daily lives.
