This sequence, first spotted by medieval Indian scholars attempting to investigate patterns in Sanskrit poetry, was noticed by Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci, known as Fibonacci, while ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a set of steadily increasing numbers where each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers.

Hear Tim Entwisle on Blueprint for Living So what is the Fibonacci sequence? Leonardo of Pisa (1170-1240), nicknamed Fibonacci, was perhaps the greatest mathematician in Europe during the Middle Ages.

The Fibonacci sequence -- in which each successive number is the sum of its two preceding numbers -- regularly crops up in nature. It describes the number of petals around daisies, how the density of ...