6765 Fibonacci Asteroid and Leonardo "Fibonacci" Pisano - Pisa, Italy
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N 43° 43.441 E 010° 23.734
32T E 612406 N 4842167
6765 Fibonacci is a main belt asteroid. A statue of the distinguished mathematician Leonardo "Fibonacci" Pisano is located at his grave at the Camposanto Monumentale in Miracle Square, Pisa, Italy
Waymark Code: WMVVFC
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 05/29/2017
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The asteroid 6765 Fibonacci wasd iscovered on January 20, 1982 by L. Brožek at the Klet Observatory is in the Czech Republic. It is 7.379 km in diameter.
The Camposanto Monumentale is oblong Gothic cloister, construction of which was was begun in 1278. It is said to have been built around a shipload of sacred soil from Golgotha, the hill where Jesus was crucified, that was brought back to Pisa from the Fourth Crusade by Ubaldo Lanfranchi, archbishop of Pisa.
A life size marble statue of of Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, located in the northeast corner of the cloister. The mathematician is depicted standing on a 4' high marble base, wearing a hooded robe. He is holding a book in his left hand in front of his chest. His right hand protrudes from the robe at waist level with his palm up and fingers slightly spread.
The marble plinth is inscribed:
LEONARDO FIBONACCI
The front of the base is inscribed:
A
LEONARDO FIBONACCI
INSIGNE MATHEMATICO
PISANO
DEL
SECOLO XII
TO
LEONARDO FIBONACCI
DISTINGUISHED MATHEMATICIAN
OF PISA
OF THE
12TH CENTURY
Fibonacci was born in Italy in 1170 but was educated in North Africa where his father, Guilielmo, held a diplomatic post representing the merchants of the Republic of Pisa. Fibonacci was taught mathematics in Bugia, present day Algeria and travelled widely with his father. During his travels he learned about the mathematical systems used in the countries they visited.
In 1200, he returned to Pisa. There he wrote a number of books which were instrumental in reviving ancient mathematical skills in Medieval Europe. Most important books were Liber abaci (1202), Practica geometriae (1220), Flos (1225), and Liber quadratorum (1225).
Today, Fibonacci is best know for his number series where the next number is the sum of the previously two numbers: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ... This series has been discovered to be of immense importance in many fields of mathematics and science.