Keith Devlin is a mathematician at Stanford University and cofounder and president of BrainQuake. His many books include The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern. He is oethe Math Guy on National Public Radio.
oePersonal and lively. Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society oe[Devlin] talks his way into Italian research libraries in search of early manuscripts, photographs all 11 street signs on Via Leonardo Fibonacci in Florence and strives to cultivate a love for numbers in his readers. Andrea Marks, Scientific American oeFinding Fibonacci showcases Devlin (TM)s writerly flair. Davide Castelvecchi, Nature oeDevlin leads a cheerful pursuit to rediscover the hero of 13th-century European mathematics, taking readers across centuries and through the back streets of medieval and modern Italy in this entertaining and surprising history. Publishers Weekly oeDevlin (TM)s enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. Tony Mann, Times Higher Education oeEngaging and entertaining. Library Journal oe[A] jaunty book. James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review