Article: SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY MATH STUDENTS TO STUDY FIBONACCI SEQUENCE, A KEY PART OF 'THE DAVINCI CODE'

The University of Pennsylvania at Slippery Rock issued the following news release:

Just as mathematicians nationwide celebrate Pi Day once a year, math students at Slippery Rock University will devote March 8 to Leonardo of Pisa's famous "Fibonacci Sequence," an 800-year old sequencing of numbers from the man that brought the decimal system to Europe.

Students will study the relationship between the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio, which featured prominently in "The DaVinci Code." Like Pi Day, students will compete in a trivia contest, and the winner will have the opportunity to throw a pie at the math professor of his or her choice.

Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, developed ...

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