FIBONACCI

"Leonardo was the son of a customs agent and spent some time interacting with Muslim merchants, where he is thought to have learned the basics of the Hindu-Arabic number system which we still use today." He then wrote a book convincing Italians that the Muslim method of counting and calculating was far superior and simpler than Roman numerals and calculation

The master narrative says Fibonacci was born into privilege as his father was a well- to- do merchant. His father did a great deal of work in North Africa and young Fibonacci would travel with him. There is an alternative biography for the man which states that his father was nothing more than a low-level shipping clerk whose name was Bonaccio. Bonaccio, in Italian, means ‘simpleton.’ The nickname Fibonacci means ‘son of simpleton.’ There are many versions of history.

To be a mathematician it is good to notice patterns. Fibonacci wrote about patterns of rabbits having baby rabbits and counted up a years worth of rabbit generations. Shraddha Shirude shows us patterns in a maple tree. One trunk branching in two then each of the branches branching. the first branch becomes 2 and then one of those branches branches and then 1 branch+2 branches =3 branches and if some of those limbs branches again there will be 5 tree limbs which just happens to be what the previous level of branching(3) + the level before(2) also is equal to 5