Were the Fibonacci series and the golden section known in ancient Egypt?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Were the Fibonacci series and the golden section known in ancient Egypt?
zbMATH Open document ID: 1009.01003
author: Corinna Rossi
author: Christopher A. Tout
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2002-07-08T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11311/997099
review text: The authors note that while finite arithmetic and geometric progressions appear in Egyptian problem texts and even the sequence of ratios of Fibonacci numbers exhibits easily discernible convergence properties in Egyptian unit fractions, there is no evidence at all that the series and the golden section did ever appear in Egyptian mathematics or architecture as proposed in a number of recent or not so recent papers.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A16
zbMATH DE Number: 1764727
zbMATH Keywords: Fibonacci numbers
zbMATH Keywords: golden section
zbMATH Keywords: Egyptian mathematics
reviewed by: Heinrich Guggenheimer
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2046925923
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DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.2001.2334
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1764727