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Fibonacci Numbers and Golden Ratio

Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the golden ratio, and appear unexpectedly often in mathematics and biological settings. They are named after Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence of numbers to Western European mathematics in 1202. Applications of Fibonacci numbers include computer algorithms and graphs used for interconnecting systems. Fibonacci numbers are also related to Lucas numbers, as the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers form a pair of complementary Lucas sequences.

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Fibonacci Numbers and Golden Ratio

Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the golden ratio, and appear unexpectedly often in mathematics and biological settings. They are named after Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence of numbers to Western European mathematics in 1202. Applications of Fibonacci numbers include computer algorithms and graphs used for interconnecting systems. Fibonacci numbers are also related to Lucas numbers, as the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers form a pair of complementary Lucas sequences.

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Fibonacci numbers are strongly related to the golden ratio: Binet's formula expresses the nth

Fibonacci number in terms of n and the golden ratio, and implies that the ratio of two consecutive
Fibonacci numbers tends to the golden ratio as n increases.
Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, later known
as Fibonacci. In his 1202 book Liber Abaci, Fibonacci introduced the sequence to Western
European mathematics,[5] although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian mathematics,[6]
[7][8]
 as early as 200 BC in work by Pingala on enumerating possible patterns of Sanskrit poetry
formed from syllables of two lengths.
Fibonacci numbers appear unexpectedly often in mathematics, so much so that there is an entire
journal dedicated to their study, the Fibonacci Quarterly. Applications of Fibonacci numbers include
computer algorithms such as the Fibonacci search technique and the Fibonacci heap data structure,
and graphs called Fibonacci cubes used for interconnecting parallel and distributed systems.
They also appear in biological settings, such as branching in trees, the arrangement of leaves on a
stem, the fruit sprouts of a pineapple, the flowering of an artichoke, an uncurling fern, and the
arrangement of a pine cone's bracts.
Fibonacci numbers are also closely related to Lucas numbers , in that the Fibonacci and Lucas
numbers form a complementary pair of Lucas sequences:  and .

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