Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci

Joseph D'Agnese
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Leonardo Fibonacci had an obsession with numbers! He was so captivated by numbers, that people would call him Blockhead because of his daydreaming. When he grew up, he worked on a ship. While traveling around the world on business he would seek out wise men and pick their brains about their math and number systems. One day whole talking with a friend he discovered an important pattern of numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, But what was the significance of these numbers? Why is there such a pattern? Would people around him view him as an intelligent math wiz or would they still see him as the daydreamer or blockhead they thought he was? Find out these answers and more in" Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci."

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