Lucas Numbers - Numberphile
Part Three of Golden Ratio Trilogy Why the Lucas Numbers are better than the Fibonacci Sequence. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Matt's signed book (& extra goodies):...
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MATT PARKER: Okay, so, Lucas Numbers are named after a guy called Edward Lucas Although, he was French, so 'Loo-cah', but I'm going to say 'Lu-cas' because I am lazy And if it wasn't for Lucas, we wouldn't really care about Fibonacci, because Fibonacci did some things he wrote those numbers down, didn't generalize them, didn't analyze them He did introduce some interesting number systems to Europe, and he did some other cool bits and pieces but these are more of a footnote to the story of his life and Lucas went, "Hey, these are really interesting", and he's the guy who promoted them and he went with his own sequence which is better than the Fibbonacci Numbers Then you think, okay, if Fibbonacci starts 1,1 wha...
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MATT PARKER: Okay, so, Lucas Numbers are named after a guy called Edward Lucas Although, he was French, so 'Loo-cah', but I'm going to say 'Lu-cas' because I am lazy And if it wasn't for Lucas, we wouldn't really care about Fibonacci, because Fibonacci did some things he wrote those numbers down, didn't generalize them, didn't analyze them He did introduce some interesting number systems to Europe, and he did some other cool bits and pieces but these are more of a footnote to the story of his life and Lucas went, "Hey, these are really interesting", and he's the guy who promoted them and he went with his own sequence which is better than the Fibbonacci Numbers Then you think, okay, if Fibbonacci starts 1,1 wha...
