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Episode description

Anna and Paul discuss math, finance, geometry, finance bros, Piza, pizza, New Yawk, the Yankees, and making things accessible to the common man.

Note: We refer to the author of "Finding Fibonacci" as “Kevin Devlin.” He is actually Keith Devlin.

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Further reading:

  1. The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution By Keith Devlin

  2. Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World By Keith Devlin

  3. Fibonacci and the Financial Revolution By William Goetzmann 

  4. The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets By William Goetzmann and K. Rouwenhurst  

  5. The History of Algrebra in Italy in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Some Remarks on Recent Historiography By Rafaella Franci 

  6. The Positional System and Base 10 | Mathematics for the Liberal Arts (lumenlearning.com)



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