Why does Fibonacci find the Fibonacci sequence so interesting?

Answer 1

History has it that Fibonacci was a great mathematician who, in the thirteenth century, was involved in a mathematical competitions. In one of these competitions he was given the problem of how fast rabbits would breed under ideal circumstances. The problem set the limit of each pair giving birth to just two offspring, and none of the rabbits die.

In the process of solving the problem, the sequence of numbers now called the Fibonacci Sequence was proposed.

The sequence begins with 0, 1 and the sequence of new numbers is the sum of the previous two numbers. Thus we have the sequence:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 etc.

This sequence has also been determined to approximately represent many facets of nature, for example the manner in which a trees branches form, the formation of a delta at a rivers end, efc.

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Answer 2

It was created no one knows whne it is really hard to rely on anything like the dates on other websites