The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two that precede it. Starting at 0 and 1, the first 10 numbers of the sequence look like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 ...

After all, when dividing a number from the Fibonacci sequence by its previous one, the result will be closer and closer to 1.618.

Every line of the poem must contain the exact number of syllables that correspond with the Fibonacci sequence. So a six line poem would have syllable line counts of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8.

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 ...

In the Fibonacci sequence, each number is the sum of the two previous ones: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on.