Thursday, May 14, 2009

Chapter 4: The Gambling Scholar

The Fibonacci Sequence

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55....

This number sequence was created by Leonardo of Pisa (who was later given the name Fibonacci). Every number from 2 onward is the sum of the previous two numbers. This sequence is what made Leonardo famous. It developed through a population growth of rabbits! This sequence has a "remarkable mathematical pattern"; it also plays a very important role in the theory of irrational numbers.

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