A Math Essay : WHO WAS FIBONACCI AND WHAT HAS MADE FIBONACCI ?

WHO WAS FIBONACCI AND WHAT HAS MADE FIBONACCI..?  

• It was in Pisa, Italy, when Fibonacci started his mathematic innovations. Fibonacci was a mathematician, who was born in Pisa, obviously, who discovered many different theories, like the golden ratio, and the Fibonacci sequence in math. He is now called among people, ‘the greatest mathematician that existed in the middle ages. ‘
•  So who was Fibonacci, ‘the greatest mathematician that existed in the middle ages ‘? Fibonacci was a man who was living in Pisa- as I said before, who was born in 1180. Leonardo Pisano – his real name, and throughout his life, he had travelled over the meditarrian sea, gaining mathematic knowledge. He introduced Arabic numbers, to Europe , gaining a foothold to the basic mathematics. His theories are also shown in Liber abaci, a book, published by himself. His books on how to divide, add, multiply, and subtract. It was completed in 1202 and persuaded many European mathematicians of his day to use this "new" system.  
• So what were his theories? Fibonacci sequence was one of his theories, one of the famous works that he has done. Obviously, this sequence was named after Fibonacci that was introduced in the book Liber abaci. This Fibonacci sequence was basically numbers added one after another, starting at 1. For instance, it starts with 1, and 1, and then the next number would be 2, with 1 and 1 – the two numbers at the front, added to make the next number.  And here’s a surprise. If you take any two successive Fibonacci numbers, their ratio is very close to the golden ratio . The basic of beauty, the golden ratio was also one of his works. The golden ratio is the special number equal to 1.618 – which makes a balanced and a ‘pretty’ image of the viewing point. The golden ratio is used in many pieces in many genres – for example, in art – Mona Lisa for example, and in architecture if designing buildings stunning and balanced. Fibonacci also introduced the numbers that we use now – starting with Europe.
• So what were the elements that made Fibonacci  a great mathematician, the foothold of the basic mathematics ? First it moves on to his home, Pisa, Italy. Pisa , was relate to many of Mediterranean ports, during that time. So naturally he was able grow up with a North African education under the Moors , with many merchants working in ports . The merchants taught him their systems of doing arithmetic, making him realise the many advantages of ‘ Hindu – Arabic’ System . He later travelled extensively around the Mediterranean coasts, giving him the basics of what he had developed. His book Liber Abaci was also from the nine Indian figures, and their arithmetic , which was used around the Mediterranean countries, and his book was just a ‘translation’  to make their use more commonly understood in his native Italy. In the matter of fact, I think Fibonacci was more of a importer that brought innovations to mathematics than a ‘mathematician’.
• Fibonacci was a great mathematician who lived in Pisa, Italy, who brought innovations to Europe, and later on to the whole world. His theories are still used until today, being the basic to every mathematics we hold today , and until the future we will face.