You're probably familiar with Fibonacci series of numbers, first analyzed in a published manuscript by the 13th-century mathematician Leonardo, son of Fibonacci of Pisa (in what is now Italy). The ...

Figure 2 The Fibonacci series is an infininite series beginning with the numbers 0 and 1 where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. Source: John Dunn The increasing numbers in the ...

This sequence of numbers was named the “Fibonacci sequence” in honor of Leonardo Fibonacci, an Italian mathematician who referenced this order of numbers in a book he wrote in 1202.