(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

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