• Born: c.
  • Died: c.
  • Birthplace: Pisa, Italy
  • Best known as:

    The guy who brought the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe

4 good links

  1. The Fibonacci Series

    Slick and supercool examples and explanations

  2. Fibonacci

    Good text introduction to Fibonacci and his work

  3. Who Was Fibonacci?

    A brief bio that leads to a great all-around site on numbers

  4. Fibonacci

    An analysis that discusses the series' relationship to the Golden Ratio

Leonardo Fibonacci Biography

Leonardo Fibonacci introduced to Europe and popularized the Hindu-Arabic number system (also called the decimal system). Fibonacci was also known as Leonardo of Pisa. He contributed greatly to number theory, and during his life published many important texts, including Liber abbaci (1202), Practica geometriae (1220) and Liber quadratorum (1225). He is also known for the Fibonacci Series, a numerical series found frequently in the natural world. In the sequence, each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 ...).

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