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1. Fibonacci

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   The sequence known as the Fibonacci Sequence was introduced to Western European mathematics in Fibonacci's seminal 1202 text, Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation). Within this work, Fibonacci posed a theoretical problem concerning the exponential growth of an idealized, perpetually fertile population of rabbits.
   Prior documentation of similar numerical relationships exists in ancient and medieval Indian mathematics, particularly within the study of prosody-related metrical structures (Pingala's work on chhandas) and …