Were the Fibonacci series and the golden section known in ancient Egypt?

DOI10.1006/hmat.2001.2334zbMath1009.01003OpenAlexW2046925923MaRDI QIDQ1604660

Christopher A. Tout, Corinna Rossi

Publication date: 8 July 2002

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11311/997099

zbMATH Keywords

Fibonacci numbersgolden sectionEgyptian mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

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• Techniques of fractions in ancient Egypt and Greece
• Some comments on R. J. Gillings' analysis of the \(2/n\) table in the Rhind papyrus
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