The Fibonacci Sequence

Mathematics in the Modern World

Batangas State University
The National Engineering University
College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts
BS Industrial Engineering

Original Presentation by : Professor Nerissa E. Blanco, B.Sc.

First Semester, A.Y. 2022-2023

Objectives

➢ To define sequence and its types

➢To differentiate Fibonacci sequence from other types of
sequence
➢ To discover golden ratio and golden rectangle; and
➢To learn how to compute for the nth term in the Fibonacci
Sequence

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 As we have discussed in the preceding lesson, human mind is
capable of identifying and organizing patterns. We were also to realized that
there are structures and patterns in nature that we don’t usually draw
attention to. Likewise, we arrived at a position that in nature, some things
follow mathematical sequences and one of them follow the Fibonacci
sequence. We noticed that these sequences is observable in some flower
petals, on the spirals of some shells and even on sunflower seeds. It is
amazing to think that the Fibonacci sequence is dramatically present in
nature and it opens the door to understand seriously the nature of sequence.

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Sequence
Sequence refers to an ordered list of numbers called terms, that may
have repeated values. The arrangement of these terms is set by a definite rule.

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Sequence
1. Arithmetic sequence – it is a sequence of numbers that follows a definite
pattern. To determine if the series of numbers follow an arithmetic sequence,
check the difference between consecutive terms.

2, 4, 6, 8……….
Formula :

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Sequence
2. Geometric sequence – is a sequence of numbers that follows a pattern were the
next term is found by multiplying by a constant called the common ratio.

2, 8, 32, 128……….
Formula :

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Sequence
3. Harmonic Sequence – in the sequence, the reciprocal of the terms behaved in
a manner like arithmetic sequence.

4. Fibonacci Sequence – is an integer in the infinite sequence 1,1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,..

of which the first two terms are 1 and 1 and each succeeding term is the sum of
the two immediately preceding.

To explore a little bit more about the Fibonacci sequence, the location of the term
was conventionally tagged as Fib( 𝑛 ).

Fib (2) + Fib (6) = ?

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Fibonacci Sequence

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Fibonacci Sequence
Fibonacci sequence was also discovered in the structure of Golden
rectangle. The golden rectangle is made up of squares whose sizes,
surprisingly is also behaving similar to the Fibonacci sequence.
Take a serious look at the figure :

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Fibonacci Sequence
As we can see in the figure, there is no complexity in forming a spiral with the use of
the golden rectangle starting from one of the sides of the first Fibonacci square going
to the edges of each of the next squares. This golden rectangle shows that the
Fibonacci sequence is not only about sequence of numbers of some sort but it is also a
geometric sequence observing a rectangle ratio. The spiral line generated by the ratio is
generously scattered around from infinite to infinitesimal.

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Fibonacci Sequence
Try these.

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