{"id":2941,"date":"2013-01-20T04:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2015-02-18T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:26:46","slug":"2013-01-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-01-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo and Steve:<br>The Young Genius Who Beat<br>Apple to Market by 800 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Dr. Keith Devlin<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">January 20, 2013<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2943\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/dr-keith-devlin-2\/2013-01-20-keith-devlin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2943\" alt=\"Dr. Keith Devlin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-20-Keith-Devlin.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-20-Keith-Devlin.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-20-Keith-Devlin-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 85vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Keith Devlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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 <em>The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci&#8217;s Arithmetical Revolution<\/em> (Walker &amp; Co, July 2011), and his co-published companion e-book <em>Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Slides from this presentation are available <a title=\"Leonardo &amp; Steve\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/LeoSteve.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Keith Devlin,\u00a0 also presented the Forum &#8220;Which Flawed Voting System Do You Support?&#8221; in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59785361\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/59785361\">Humanist Community Forum (2013-01-20) &#8211; Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-01-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leonardo and Steve:<br \/>The Young Genius Who Beat<br \/>Apple to Market by 800 Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[116,113,114,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}