0 a series of numbers in which each number is the sum (= total when added together) of the two numbers that come before it in the series, for example 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ..:
Made famous by the Italian mathematician Leonardo De Pisa, the Fibonacci series holds a Golden Ratio that is universally found in nature and used by architects, plastic surgeons, and many others.
In 1971 he began a series of photographs applying the Fibonacci series to social groupings.
The pianist asserts that Debussy persistently applied the Fibonacci sequence to a number of his major works, most notably La Mer.
