Leonardo Fibonacci,Italian mathematician (c1170- c1250),coloured artwork. Fibonacci introduced the "Arabian" numeral system to Europe,through his Book of the Abacus (1202). He also discovered a sequence of numbers in which each number is the sum of the previous two: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,and so on. This was named the Fibonacci series. This series is often found in nature,for example in the patterns of leaf growth | |
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