Leonardo Fibonacci, circa 1170 — circa 1250, was an Italian man.
L. Fibonacci is known by basic mathematicians as the person whose name was given to a famous sequence of numbers.
The years of his birth and death are not exactly known. He was an italian man of a time when european learned people paid more attention to Holy Books than to mathematics. But Fibonacci had his education in north Africa where he was in contact with the arabic mathematics world.
I show below how the sequence of Fibonacci numbers is generated. I start with 0 and 1 (leftmost column) which are the two first numbers. I add these numbers : 0 + 1 = 1 ; the result 1 will be the third number (second column). So the sequence has now three numbers 0,1,1 . I add now the two last numbers of the sequence : 1 + 1 = 2 ; the result 2 will be the fourth number (third column). And so on. The sequence is infinite.
P. M.
(alphacode : fibonacci ; numcode : 133)
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