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

DOI10.1006/HMAT.2001.2334MaRDI QIDQ1604660zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Corinna Rossi, Christopher A. Tout

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

Egyptian mathematicsFibonacci numbersgolden section

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

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.

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