+5478 Fibonacci.
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
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Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician. He lived from about 1170 to 1250.
He 'toyed with' lots of cool concepts!
Here is a stack of pages you can look at to help answer this question.
You know google is a wonderful thing although your spelling may have caused a problem.
It is alright for you to ask here anyway. Maybe other people will also take a look. 
+128408 Thanks for that website kitty<3....I discovered it, too, about 3-4 years ago...fascinating and easy to understand (which is good for an idiot like me!!). I think - if I remember correctly - that there might be a link to the Lucas Numbers from this page......equally fascinating connections between those two series!!!
