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Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio

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This book consists of the lecture notes, problems and solutions from the author’s Coursera course “Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio.” YouTube links to the course’s videos are provided at the top of each lecture. In these lectures, we learn the origin of the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, and derive a formula to compute any Fibonacci number from powers of the golden ratio. We learn how to add a series of Fibonacci numbers and their squares, and unveil the mathematics behind a famous paradox called the Fibonacci bamboozlement. We construct a beautiful golden spiral and an even more beautiful Fibonacci spiral, and we learn why the Fibonacci numbers can appear unexpectedly in nature. At the end of each lecture, students are given interesting problems to solve, and the author’s detailed solutions are provided in the book’s Appendix.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2021

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Jeffrey R. Chasnov

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November 7, 2025
Interessanti soprattutto gli esercizi

Nato da un MOOC su Coursera, questo libretto tradisce la sua origine: i capitoli corrispondono alle lezioni e sono molto minuscoli, oltre che essere piuttosto ripetitivi. In compenso c'è una parte di esercizi, proprio perché gli studenti dovevano pure mettere in pratica le cose, molto piacevole. Insomma, nulla di trascendentale, ma se uno non sa quasi nulla del rapporto aureo e dei numeri di Fibonacci e vuole un'idea matematica e non new age questa può essere una buona scelta; l'autore scrive che il testo è al livello di scuola superiore.

Bonus: trovate il testo liberamente disponibile (CC-BY-3.0) qui.
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