New Visual Perspectives On Fibonacci Numbers
Will be published approx. on 10. October 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-981-238-134-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book covers new ground on Fibonacci sequences and the well-known Fibonacci numbers. It will appeal to research mathematicians wishing to advance the new ideas themselves, and to recreational mathematicians, who will enjoy the various visual approaches and the problems inherent in them.There is a continuing emphasis on diagrams, both geometric and combinatorial, which helps to tie disparate topics together, weaving around the unifying themes of the golden mean and various generalizations of the Fibonacci recurrence relation.Very little prior mathematical knowledge is assumed, other than the rudiments of algebra and geometry, so the book may be used as a source of enrichment material and project work for college students. A chapter on games using goldpoint tiles is included at the end, and it can provide much material for stimulating mathematical activities involving geometric puzzles of a combinatoric nature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-981-238-134-7 (9789812381347)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Contents: Number Theoretic Perspectives - Coupled Recurrence Relations: Introductory Remarks by the First Author; The 2-Fibonacci Sequences; Extensions of the Concepts of 2-Fibonacci Sequences; Other Ideas for Modification of the Fibonacci Sequences; Number Trees: Introduction - Turner's Number Trees; Generalizations Using Tableaux; On Gray Codes and Coupled Recurrence Trees; Studies of Node Sums on Number Trees; Connections with Pascal-T Triangles; Geometric Perspectives - Finonacci Vector Geometry: Introduction and Elementary Results; Vector Sequences from Linear Recurrences; The Fibonacci Honeycomb Plane; Fibonacci and Lucas Vector Polygons; Trigonometry in the Honeycomb Plane; Vector Sequences Generated in Planes; Fibonacci Tracks, Groups, and Plus-Minus Sequences; Goldpoint Geometry: On Goldpoints and Golden-Mean Constructions; The Goldpoint Rings of a Line-Segment; Some Fractals in Goldpoint Geometry; Triangles and Squares Marked with Goldpoints; Plane Tessellations with Goldpoint Triangles; Tessellations with Goldpoint Squares; Games with Goldpoint Tiles.