> A friend asked me this question, which I thought I'd forward to the list:
>
> > Being a mathematician, would you happen to know of a good biography/
> > history of Fibonacci? Something that deals with historical context
> > before and after he published his arithmetic book?
>
> Svein Olav Nyberg
I can follow the discussion in this newsgroup only sporadically, so I am
not sure if someone mentioned it before. But as for literature on
Fibonacci, the book
Heinz Lueneburg: Leonardi Pisani Liber Abbaci
oder
Lesevergnuegen eines Mathematikers
Mannheim 1993
should not lost out of sight.
Jochen Ziegenbalg, Karlsruhe (Germany)