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Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician born around 1170, known for introducing the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Europe and for his contributions to mathematics, particularly the Fibonacci sequence. His book, Liber abbaci, published in 1202, played a significant role in popularizing this numeral system. The Fibonacci sequence, which begins with 1 and 1 and continues by summing the two preceding numbers, is widely recognized today and is related to concepts such as the Golden Ratio and the Eliot Wave Principle in stock market behavior.

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Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician born around 1170, known for introducing the Hindu-Arabic numeral system to Europe and for his contributions to mathematics, particularly the Fibonacci sequence. His book, Liber abbaci, published in 1202, played a significant role in popularizing this numeral system. The Fibonacci sequence, which begins with 1 and 1 and continues by summing the two preceding numbers, is widely recognized today and is related to concepts such as the Golden Ratio and the Eliot Wave Principle in stock market behavior.

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LEONARDO FIBONACCI

 He was an Italian mathematician who lived from around 1170 to around 1250.

 He was born in Pisa, Italy in about 1170.

 His father Guglielmo was nicknamed Bonaccio (“good natured” or

“simple”).

 His mother Alessandra was died when he was 9 years old.

 Leonardo was posthumously given the nickname Fibonacci (derived from

filius Bonacci, meaning son of Bonaccio).

 He spent most of his life in Pisa. When he was still a teenager, he travelled to

Bugia, in North Africa, to join his father who had gone there to handle

international trade for Pisa, then one of the major Mediterranean commercial

hubs. This is where he learned about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

Fibonacci’s Mathematical Contributions

1. Hindu Arabic number system

 He was one of the first people to introduce the Hindu- Arabic number system

into Europe the positional system we use today based on ten digits with its

decimal point and a symbol for zero: 1234567890

 His book on how to do arithmetic in the decimal system, called Liber abbaci

(meaning Book of the Abacus or Book of Calculating) completed in 1202

persuaded many European mathematicians of his day to use this “new”

system.
 Leonardo became an amicable guest of the Emperor Frederick II, who

enjoyed mathematics and science. In 1240 the Republic of Pisa honored

Leonardo, referred to as Leonardo Bigollo, by granting him a salary.

2. The Fibonacci sequence

 He discovered the Fibonacci sequence primarily through his travels in the

Middle East and India.

 A sequence is an ordered list of numbers, called terms. It may have repeated

values. The arrangement of these terms is set by a definite rule.

 The name “Fibonacci is most widely known today not because Leonardo was

the man who introduced modern arithmetic into Europe, rather in connection

with the “Fibonacci sequence”, an unending sequence of natural numbers that

begins

(1,1,2,3,3,8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377,)

 The rule for generating new numbers in the sequence is that each member is

the sun of the two preceding mumbers, so 1+1-2, 1-2-3, 2+3-5, etc. This

sequence arises when you solve a particular problem Leonardo gave in Liber

abbaci.
3. Recursion Formula

 A mathematical statement or statements that repeat a process to produce a

list of output with an identical or shared property is called a recursion formula.

In an algorithm, this is done by a do-loop structure. The formula to generate

the elements of an arithmetic or geometric sequence is an example of a

recursion formula.

Example of which are the stripes in tigers and the sunflower pattern.

4. Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio

 Fibonacci sequence is formed by adding the preceding numbers, beginning

with 0 and 1. Ratios of two Fibonacci numbers approximate the Golden Ratio.

The aesthetic appeal of the Golden ratio has to do with balance between

symmetry and asymmetry or between order and chaos.

5. Eliot Wave Principle

 Eliot wave principle proposes that the sequence of highs and lows in the

behavior of stock prices mimics the propagation of a Fibonacci sequence.

Example:

The earliest known pattern we have experienced is the pattern of day and

night, sunrise and sunset, summer and rainy days. Weather patterns are like

cycle, which keep repeating on its own, like the seasons in the Philippines

which changes wind direction during Amihan and Habagat. Amihan is

normally displayed from November and December until end of May or middle

of June.

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