5 Things You Never Knew About Fibonacci
Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician who introduced the Fibonacci sequence to the western world. The sequence is a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The sequence has many interesting properties, including its appearance in nature. Here are 5 things You never knew: 1. Fibonacci's real name was Leonardo Pisano Bigollo. 2. Fibonacci introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Europe. 3. Fibonacci's father was a wealthy merchant and he traveled extensively with him throughout the Mediterranean. 4. Fibonacci's most famous work, Liber Abaci, is a book about arithmetic and algebra. 5. The Fibonacci sequence appears in nature in many forms, including the spiral patterns of pinecones, sunflowers, and seashells.