Dr. Keith Devlin
January 20, 2013
The first personal computing revolution took place not in Silicon Valley in the 1980s but in Pisa in the 13th Century. The medieval counterpart to Steve Jobs was a young Italian called Leonardo, better known today by the nickname Fibonacci. Thanks to a recently discovered manuscript in a library in Florence, the story of how this little known genius came to launch the modern commercial world can now be told. Dr. Keith Devlin (Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University) will present this talk which will be based on his latest book The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetical Revolution (Walker & Co, July 2011), and his co-published companion e-book Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years.
Slides from this presentation are available here.
Dr. Keith Devlin, also presented the Forum “Which Flawed Voting System Do You Support?” in 2012.
Humanist Community Forum (2013-01-20) – Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.