Fibonacci Vocab words

Fibonacci

"son of Bonacci"

Hindu numbers

0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a positional decimal numeral system

Golden ratio

1.618

When was Fibonacci born?

1170

When did Fibonacci's book get published?

1202

When did Fibonacci die?

1250

Where did Fibonacci spend 7 years?

Constantinople

Italian

Fibonacci's background

Alessandra

Fibonacci's mother who died when he was 9

Catholic

Fibonacci's religion.

What does Bigollo mean?

Good for nothing or travel.

Who is Fibonacci father?

Guglielmo Bonacci

Why did Fibonacci move to Borgie?

He moved because of his fathers job

Why did Fibonacci travel so much?

He was teaching the Hindu numbers and some of his questions were being answered by other mathematicians.

What book did Fibonacci write in Pisa?

Liber Abanci

Decimal sequence

One of Fibonacci's discoveries, its based on the number 10

Where was Fibonacci born?

Pisa,Italy

Fibonacci spiral

The Fibonacci spiral is a special kind of golden spiral whose ratio increases by the factor 1.618.

Liber Abaci

The first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics.

Fibonacci sequence

The series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ... The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.

Leaning tower of Pisa

The tower outside of Fibonacci's school.

Why did Leonardo nickname himself Fibonacci?

To show how loyal he was to his father

wax tablet

What the people in Italy used to write on

Pisa

Where Fibonacci was born and died

Phi

the golden ratio