Word: brousseau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each number following the first 1 consisted of the sum of the two previous numbers. Fibonacci attached no great significance to the sequence, and it was generally ignored through the years by all but dedicated mathematicians. Then, in the early 1960s, Brother Alfred Brousseau, who teaches math at St. Mary's College near San Francisco, became interested in the numbers and their applications. "We got a group of people together in 1963," he says, "and just like a bunch of nuts, we started a mathematics magazine." The Fibonacci Quarterly ($6 per year) has survived and-in an academic sort...
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