Thursday 14 July 2011

Leonardo Fibonacci

Leonardo Fibonacci (c.1170 - c.1250) was an Italian mathematician best known to the modern world for the spreading of Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe with is booko "Liber Abaci" and for the number sequence named as him.
The Fibonacci number, very used in Algebra, is a sequence of numbers, each of one is the sum of the previous two numbers and it starts with 0: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ... .

1 comment:

  1. Number theory is an amazing way to discover and above all actually do philosophy... Have you seen a film called 'Pi' - signature of God..?

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