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In article <PT2QD.71637$qe7.60825@fx01.iad>,
FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer <FBInCIAnNSATe...@yahoo.com> posted:

Since Mathematicians and Math Historians admit that
Fibonacci sequence was actually invented by Indian
Mathematicians a couple of hundred years earlier, the math
body should immediately change the name of Fibonacci
Sequence to Virahanka/Pingala Sequence.

FIBONACCI MERELY TRANSLATED A TEXT OF INDIAN MATHEMATICS

Historians of mathematics are well aware that Fibonacci (of
the numbers fame) merely translated a text of Indian
mathematics, which introduced the decimal number system to
Europe.

http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~dg/sdarticle.pdf

(Cornell University Mathematics Professor)
Steven Strogatz? @stevenstrogatz

Fibonacci was intimately familiar with Indian math, and
"his" sequence was well known to Indian linguists and poets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician
Leonardo of Pisa, later known as Fibonacci. They appear to
have first arisen as early as 200 BC in work by Pingala on
enumerating possible patterns of poetry formed from
syllables of two lengths. In his 1202 book Liber Abaci,
Fibonacci introduced the sequence to Western European
mathematics,[6] although the sequence had been described
earlier in Indian mathematics.

Origins

The Fibonacci sequence appears in Indian mathematics, in
connection with Sanskrit prosody.[8][13] In the Sanskrit
poetic tradition, there was interest in enumerating all
patterns of long (L) syllables of 2 units duration,
juxtaposed with short (S) syllables of 1 unit duration.
Counting the different patterns of successive L and S with
a given total duration results in the Fibonacci numbers:
the number of patterns of duration m units is Fm + 1

Knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence was expressed as early
as Pingala (c.450 BC–200 BC). Parmanand Singh cites
Pingala's cryptic formula misrau cha ("the two are mixed")
and scholars who interpret it in context as saying that the
number of patterns for m beats (Fm+1) is obtained by adding
one [S] to the Fm cases and one [L] to the Fm-1 cases. [14]
Bharata Muni also expresses knowledge of the sequence in
the Natya Shastra (c. 100 BC–c. 350 AD).[15][7] However,
the clearest exposition of the sequence arises in the work
of Virahanka (c. 700 AD), whose own work is lost, but is
available in a quotation by Gopala (c. 1135):

Dhanyavaad for posting the article.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

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