The numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and 55 belong to a famous sequence named for the Italian mathematician Fibonacci, who lived more than 700 years ago. Each consecutive number is the sum ...

Fibonacci numbers “always make mathematicians happy,” said Tara Holm, a mathematician at Cornell University. Their appearance in McDuff and Schlenk’s work, she added, was “some indication ...

Hence, the first year of the primary Chinese calendar cycle, jia-zi, corresponds to the first Fibonacci number, F[1]. The 60th year, gui-hai , corresponds to the 60th Fibonacci number, F[60 ...