FIBONACCI AND HIS WORKS

Leonardo Pisano, widely known as Fibonacci, is a 13 th century Italian mathematician who was born and
raised in Pisa, Italy, but he obtained his education in North Africa. He was the son of a wealthy merchant,
Guilielmo Bonaccio, and was privileged enough to study the numeral systems of countries around
Mediterranean. In the Middle Ages, Leonardo was famous for being the most talented Western mathematician.
A French historian made his name Fibonacci, in short for “Fillius Bonacci,” (son of Bonaccio) which refers to his
father. Fibonacci has made significant works that were widely used in the world of Mathematics. One of his
greatest work is the Liber Abaci (1202), or Book of Abacus. In this book, he popularized the Hindu-Arabic
numeral system and promoted the use of the ten symbols—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0—and demonstrated
how the system could be used for real-world applications like business bookkeeping and interest calculation.
Other works includes ‘Practica Geometria’ and ‘Liber quadratorum.’ Various mathematics concepts have been
named after Fibonacci. The Fibonacci sequence in which each number is the sum of the previous two numbers,
was introduced by Fibonacci to Western European mathematics. Furthermore, Fibonacci has greatly contributed
not only to Mathematics but also to real-life world that can be seen to other natural settings.

Fibonacci numbers are consistent patterns that frequently appears in nature such as the patterns of
leaves, number of petals on a flower, and spiral pattern of a pinecone which increases in size as you move
outward. Animals like millipedes, pangolins, and chameleon tails as well as population patterns all display the
Fibonacci sequence. Everything that we see is geometry, and each geometry has Fibonacci number such as
rectangles. It has seen that Fibonacci sequence has a connection to a number called phi (ϕ) which is equal to
1.618033989 (to 9 decimal places), or the golden ratio. The golden ratio has also been called as the "divine
proportion," because it was thought to be the ideal ratio, the "golden mean," because it is a special "middle,"
the "golden section," because it is a special way of "cutting" a segment, and "extreme and mean ratio," as an
explicit description. It is particularly the ratio between two segments' parts A and B, which also happens to be
the ratio between the segment as a whole and one of its parts. For an instance, you have a “golden rectangle.”
You cut off a square with side lengths equal to shorter rectangle, the remains is still a golden rectangle. This
means that you can continue to cut off this squares but still produces a golden rectangle. Another is the
Fibonacci puzzle. For example, you have a square. The square must be broken into four shapes (two triangles
and two trapezoids) using three consecutive Fibonacci numbers. Once the square has been divided properly, the
pieces can be rearranged to form a rectangle. This means that you can create a rectangle puzzle using a square
cut off in four shapes. Not only they are connected to numbers, the golden rectangle also fascinated artists of
the centuries, and it has made their art beautiful. It consists proportions that have been visually and
aesthetically pleasing.

Indeed, Fibonacci’s works and discoveries made an important contribution to Mathematics and to real-
world settings. It create an understanding and realizations that Mathematics is everywhere, from the beauty of
the nature up until to the formation of new thing.