Poetry
What a Fascinating Mathematical Sequence of Numbers
Fibonacci poetry is easy if you understand the logic
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920) was an intuitive mathematical genius who left India to study at Cambridge and became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Despite having no formal math training:
“He is most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series, among them fascinating formulas that can calculate digits of pi in unusual ways.” — Scientific American.
I’m only telling you this because by comparison the Fibonacci sequence is simple arithmetic — no complex theories.
Structuring a Fib poem may confuse one — I battled to master it at first. But it’s fun and you’ll find my latest at the end of this piece.
(This series of numbers has applications in advanced mathematics, nature, statistics, computer science, the golden ratio and agile software development, but let’s stick to poetry!)
Who was Fibonacci?
Although the number sequence was known in India years before, it was the Italian mathematician, Leonardo Bigollo Pisano (1170–1250), (nicknamed Fibonacci meaning Son of Bonacci) who brought it to the West.
