Directions:  Print this page and find answers to questions on Leonardo Fibonacci and Pythagoras.
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 1.  Fibonacci was born in _________________ but was educated in__________________.

 2.  His publication, _________________________, introduced the Hindu-Arabic

      place-value system and the use of __________________ numerals into Europe.

 3.  Fibonacci is famed for his invention of the sequence____________________________,

      where each number is the sum of the previous two.

 4.  The Fibonacci sequence does not appear in his book, but his problem

      about _________________ does.

 5.   Pythagoras was born in the year ____________________.

 6.   Pythagoras was a Greek ________________________ responsible for important

       developments in __________________________, _________________________,

       and the theory of ______________________________.

  7.  Pythagoras and his followers noticed that vibrating ___________________ produce

       harmonious ___________________ when the ratios of the ___________________

       of the strings are ____________________ numbers.  These ratios could be extended

       to other ______________________.
 
 
 

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