The Famous Fibonacci
Birthplace: Pisa, Italy Fibonacci has become such a famous mathematician that he is routinely referred to only by that one name, much in the way Madonna is today. He was born as Leonardo of Pisa, and his mathematical brilliance would soon be discovered. Today, many students probably recognize the name from the famous sequence now know as the Fibonacci numbers - a number sequence that is generated by adding the previous two terms to create the current term. Sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, ... "Leonardo" is not credited with discovering this sequence, but it was named after him because he shared it with the Western world in his famous book on mathematics the Liber Abaci. The ratio of the successive, especially high terms, approximates the golden ration. The golden ratio is approximately 1:1.618. The golden ratio has countless connections to the natural world, including the human body. Return fromFibonacci to other Famous Math People.
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