Leonardo Fibonacci and Steve Jobs - Professor Keith Devlin
April 23rd, 2012
Keith Devlin (Stanford University)
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.
Based on Devlin’s 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.
Steve and Leonardo
Some scenes following the death of Steve Jobs
Some members of the audience
A "Man of Numbers" discusses "A Man of Numbers"