Fibonacci Numbers

by Nikolai N. Vorob'ev

Fibonacci numbers date back to an 800-year-old problem concerning the number of offspring born in a single year to a pair of rabbits. This book offers the solution and explores the occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in number theory, continued fractions, and geometry. Its light and entertaining style will engage recreational readers as well as students and teachers.

78 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1951

About the author

Nikolaj Nikolaevič Vorob̉ev
(Vorobiev, Vorobev, Vorob'ev)

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wanting to do some mathematics, but not wanting to strain myself overly, I pulled this Soviet era text from my dusty, electronic bookshelf. In a way it had been sitting there since I'd first become acquainted with the Fibonacci Numbers about 50 years ago.

It scratched the itch.

[Waffle's Crazy Peanut · Rating 4 out of 5]

It had a nice start and a wonderful ending. But, along the way, it was mathematically rigorous - proving theorems, stating lemmas, stuff like that...