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Fibonacci: Math's Golden Legacy

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. It was described by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci in his 1202 book Liber Abaci. Fibonacci posed a problem about a breeding rabbit population that demonstrated the sequence. The ratios between numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are often found in nature, such as the spiral patterns of shells, pinecones, and other biological structures. Many argue this indicates the divine or ideal proportions built into nature by design.

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Fibonacci: Math's Golden Legacy

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. It was described by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci in his 1202 book Liber Abaci. Fibonacci posed a problem about a breeding rabbit population that demonstrated the sequence. The ratios between numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are often found in nature, such as the spiral patterns of shells, pinecones, and other biological structures. Many argue this indicates the divine or ideal proportions built into nature by design.

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Fibonacci

Sequence

Ma. Virginia B. Carreon©


Sequence
 isan ordered list of number,
called terms, that may have
repeated values, following a
definite rule
ex. 1,3,6,10,15,21…
terms
A famous sequence is Fibonacci
Sequence
Who is Fibonacci?
 Leonardo Pisano (full name in Italian)
 Leonardo of Pisa (in English)
 Lived between 1170 and 1250 in Italy
“Fibonacci" was his nickname and is a shortening of

filius Bonacci, which means "Son of Bonacci“ (father-

Guglielmo Bonacci)

Greatest European mathematician of the middle ages



Fibonacci’s own exercise published in his book
“Liber Abbaci” (Book of Calculation) in 1202:

“A man put a pair of rabbits in a place surrounded on all


sides by a wall. How many pairs of rabbits are produced
from that pair in a year, if it is supposed that every month
each pair produces a new pair, which from the second month
onwards becomes productive?”

- this became the basis for Fibonacci Sequence (Fibonacci


numbers)
The Rabbit Habit
Newly born male & female rabbits
1

Sexually matured after 1 month

1
Newly born pair

3
Fibonacci Sequence
 isa series of numbers:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89,
144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597,
2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711,
28657, 46368, 75025, 121393,
196418, 317811, ...
Each number is obtained by adding the last
two numbers of the sequence, forms what is
known as the golden rectangle
Fibonacci Spiral
Golden Rectangle

is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio which

is 1 : φ (the Greek letter phi), where φ is approximately

1.618034 also called the golden ratio


Golden Ratio & Golden Number
a b

ab a 1 5
     1.618034
a b 2
Are our bodies based on What do you

Fibonacci numbers? notice?

 Find the ratio of


 Height (red) : Top
of head to
fingertips (blue)
 Top of head to
fingertips (blue) :
Top of head to
elbows (green)
 Length of forearm
(yellow) : length
of hand (purple)
Divine Proportion
Golden Section / Fibonacci building blocks:
Each line is 1.618… times longer than the one

before it. (Conversely, a section drawn at

0.618 (or 61.8%) of each line equals the


The ratio of the forearm to hand is
length of the one before it.)
Phi

Your hand creates a golden section in

relation to your arm, as the ratio of

your forearm to your hand is also

1.618, the Divine Proportion.


Spirals

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