Fibonacci
Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, or more commonly known as Fibonacci, was born in Pisa, Italy in 1175. He was the son of Guilielmo Bonacci, a secretary of the Republic of Pisa. His father was only a secretary, so he was often sent to do work in Pisan trading colonies. He did this for many years until 1192. In 1192, his dad got a permanent job as the director of the Pisan trading colony in Bugia, Algeria. Sometime after 1192, Bonacci brought Fibonacci with him to Bugia. Bonnaci expected Fibonacci to become a merchant and so arranged for him in instruction of calculation techniques. One of the major themes in this involved the Hindu-Arabic numerals which had not yet been introduced into Europe. Eventually, Bonacci enlisted his son's help in carrying out business for the Pisan republic and sent him on trips to Egypt, Syria, Greece, Sicily, and Provence. Fibonacci
The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each term is the sum of two terms immediately preceding it. The Fibonacci sequence that has one as its first term is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55. . . . The numbers may also be referred to as Fibonacci numbers. Fibonacci sequences have proven useful in number theory, geometry, the theory of continued fractions, and genetics. They also occur in many unrelated phenomenon, for example, the Golden Section, (whose value is 1.6180) a shape valued in art and architecture because of its nice proportions, and spiral arrangement of petals and branches on certain types of flowers and plants. In the final part of the book Fibonacci, a student of Euclid, applied the algebraic method. Fibonacci's book, the Liber abaci remained a standard text for the next two centuries. In 1220 he published Practica geometriae, a book on
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