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3) Leo + Lea
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Leo is totally fixated on numbers and counting everything, even the words in the story the teacher reads; Lea is the shy new girl who shares his desk, and spends all her time drawing--but one day, in the noise of the playground, an accident brings them and their obsessions together in the beginning of a friendship.
5) Finding Fibonacci: the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, he didn't invent--Fibonacci's greatest contribution was as an expositor of mathematical ideas at a level ordinary people could understand. In 1202,...
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