Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. (June 26, 1921 – August 11, 1980) was an American
mathematician, known mostly for his work in
Fibonacci numbers and
number theory.
Hoggatt received a
Ph.D. from
Oregon State University in 1955 for his
dissertation on
The Inverse Weierstrass P-Function.
Besides his contributions in Fibonacci numbers and number theory it is as the co-founder of the
Fibonacci association
The Fibonacci Association is a mathematical organization that specializes in the Fibonacci number sequence and a wide variety of related subjects, generalizations, and applications, including recurrence relations, combinatorial identities, binomia ...
and publisher of the associated
journal ''
Fibonacci Quarterly'' for which he is best remembered.
Howard Eves commented, "During his long and outstanding tenure at
San Jose State University, Vern directed an enormous number of master's theses, and put out an amazing number of attractive papers... He became the authority on Fibonacci and related numbers."
See also
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Fibonacci numbers
*
The Fibonacci Association
*
Alfred Brousseau
References
Verner Hoggatt Biography
External links
The Fibonacci Quarterly
1921 births
1980 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Number theorists
Oregon State University alumni
San Jose State University faculty
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