Art and Mathematics:

AMAZING NUMBER RELATIONSHIPS – 3

PASCAL AND FIBONACCI

Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662 Fibonacci – 1170 – 1250

Two amazing mathematicians lived in two different countries and in two different centuries and

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yet their individual discoveries showed amazing relationships which make us overwhelmed even
now!

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This is the Pascal’s triangle.

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This is the Fibonacci series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 etc.

Let us look at the relationship between the two.

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Rewrite Pascal’s triangle into a right triangle and not as an isosceles triangle.
Having written the Pascal’s
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numbers differently, can you
1 1 try and recognize, how you can
build Fibonacci numbers from
1 2 1
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this?
1 3 3 1
You will have to think
1 4 6 4 1 differently.
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1 5 10 10 5 1 Show in your note book, how

you have located them. Use
1 6 15 20 15 6 1 different colours.
1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1
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REFLECTIONS: Think out of the box! Try and
recognize how you will get 1,1,2,3,5,
etc. Problem solving is really an Art.
SOLUTION:

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34

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1 2 1
1 3 3 1

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1 5 10 10 5 1
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21
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21
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You can extend this to any row.
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