11 Facts About Fibonacci

1.

The name he is commonly called, Fibonacci, was made up in 1838 by the Franco-Italian historian Guillaume Libri and is short for.

2.

Fibonacci introduced Europe to the sequence of Fibonacci numbers, which he used as an example in.

3.

Fibonacci was born around 1170 to Guglielmo, an Italian merchant and customs official.

4.

Fibonacci travelled around the Mediterranean coast, meeting with many merchants and learning about their systems of doing arithmetic.

5.

Fibonacci soon realised the many advantages of the Hindu-Arabic system, which, unlike the Roman numerals used at the time, allowed easy calculation using a place-value system.

6.

Fibonacci was a guest of Emperor Frederick II, who enjoyed mathematics and science.

7.

In 1240, the Republic of Pisa honored Fibonacci by granting him a salary in a decree that recognized him for the services that he had given to the city as an advisor on matters of accounting and instruction to citizens.

8.

Fibonacci is thought to have died between 1240 and 1250, in Pisa.

9.

Fibonacci omitted the "0" and first "1" included today and began the sequence with 1,2,3,.

10.

Fibonacci carried the calculation up to the thirteenth place, the value 233, though another manuscript carries it to the next place, the value 377.

11.

Fibonacci did not speak about the golden ratio as the limit of the ratio of consecutive numbers in this sequence.