Mathematician:Simon Jacob

Mathematician

German reckoner about whom little is known.

Published a book demonstrating that he understood some facts about the Fibonacci numbers that were not rediscovered until centuries later.

Nationality

Bavarian

History

• Born: c. 1500 possibly in Coburg, Bavaria
• Died: 24 June 1564 in Frankfurt/Main

Theorems and Definitions

• Ratio of Consecutive Fibonacci Numbers

Publications

• 1560: Ein new und wohlgegründt Rechenbuch

Sources

• 1995: Peter Schreiber: A Supplement to J. Shallit's Paper “Origins of the Analysis of the Euclidean Algorithm” (Hist. Math. Vol. 22: pp. 422 – 424)
• 1997: Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.2.8$: Fibonacci Numbers