Fibonacci Sequence Essay

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Fibonacci sequence: not only found in math Fibonacci, also known as the Leonardo of Pisa, born in the early 1770’s in Pisa, Italy, made a huge impact on today’s math and is used all over the world still to this day. Even though Fibonacci was born in Italy, he was educated in North Africa where his father held a diplomatic post ("Fibonacci biography"). The Fibonacci sequence of numbers are a series of numbers in which the sum of the previous two numbers equal the next number i.e.; 1, 1, 2,3,5,8,13,21,34 these numbers are obviously algorithmic. Fibonacci published a book called Liber abaci in 1202, this is where for the first time the Fibonacci numbers were discussed; this number sequence Fibonacci put together out of the math and algebra that he accumulated throughout his travels with his father (Knott, Quinny and Maths). The Fibonacci sequence is not only a mathematical sequence, but it also plays a big role in patterns of nature, and even some works of music. In the year 1202, Fibonacci investigated a problem about growth rate of rabbit population in a biologically unrealistic situation. The dilemma Fibonacci posed was: how many rabbits will there be a year from now. Under the conditions that the rabbits never die and the same cycle is repeated every month so that all pairs give birth to a new pair every month and a newly born pair can start mating from the second month. How many pairs of rabbit will there be at the end of the year? The solution of the problem looks like this: at the end of the first month, they mate, but there is still one only 1 pair; at the end of the second month the female produces a new pair making 2 pairs of rabbits; at the end of the third month, the original female produces a second pair, making 3 pairs; at the end of the fourth month, the original female has produced another new pair, the female born two months ago produces her

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