Once again, thanks to the TV Show Numbers, I got a refresher from my old math course. This time, it is on the Fibonacci Sequence.
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following sequence:
0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89, 144 etc.
By definition, the first two Fibonacci numbers are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. Some sources omit the initial 0, instead beginning the sequence with two 1s.
The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was known as Fibonacci (a contraction of filius Bonacci, “son of Bonaccio”). Fibonacci’s 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics, although the sequence had been previously described in Indian mathematics.