Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. (June 26, 1921 – August 11, 1980) was an American
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
, known mostly for his work in
Fibonacci numbers
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and
number theory
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.
Hoggatt received a
Ph.D.
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from
Oregon State University
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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 and publisher of the associated
journal
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''
Fibonacci Quarterly
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'' for which he is best remembered.
Howard Eves
Howard Whitley Eves (10 January 1911, New Jersey – 6 June 2004) was an American mathematician, known for his work in geometry and the history of mathematics.
Eves received his B.S. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from Harvard Universi ...
commented, "During his long and outstanding tenure at
San Jose State University
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, 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
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a sequence, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from ...
*
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 ...
*
Alfred Brousseau
Brother Alfred Brousseau, F.S.C. (February 17, 1907 – May 31, 1988), was an educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator.
Biography
Brother Brousseau was born in No ...
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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