Fibonacci Numbers and Cotangent Sequences

DOI10.2307/3072430MaRDI QIDQ4417756zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael J. Jamieson

Publication date 29 July 2003

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3072430

zbMATH Keywords

Aitkin transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

Review text

\textit{G. M. Phillips} [Am. Math. Mon. 91, 354--357 (1984; Zbl 0545.65004)] showed that the application of Aitken's transformation to the sequence of ratios of consecutive Fibonacci numbers generates a new sequence whose numbers are also numbers in the same sequence. This article proves a similar result for the cotangent sequence \(\text{cot\,}n\vartheta\), \(n= 1,2,3,\dots\)\ . That is, when Aitken's transformation is applied to the sequence \(\text{cot\,}n\vartheta\), then the numbers of the obtained sequence are also of the form \(\text{cot\,}n\vartheta\). The author also gives a simple proof of Phillips' result and shows a connection between it and the corresponding result for the cotangent sequence.

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