This survey of the use of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and the ancient principle of the Golden Section covers areas relevant to operational research, statistics, and computational mathematics. 1989 edition.
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Steven Vajda (1901-95) was Visiting Professor of Mathematics at England's Sussex University.
Preface
Introduction
Background
Relationships
Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section
Fibonacci Series
Divisibility properties
Congruences and uniformity
Continued fractions and convergents
Fibonacci representation
Search and games
Hyperbolic functions and Fibonacci numbers
Meta-Fibonacci sequences (a letter from B. W. Conolly)
The Golden Section in the plane
The Golden Section in three-dimensional space
Appendix
List of formulae
References
Table of Fn and Ln and their prime factors
Index
