Definition:Fibonacci Number/Historical Note

Historical Note on Fibonacci Numbers
famously discussed this sequence in his, in the context of breeding pairs of rabbits.

Hence the name Fibonacci numbers, which was given to this sequence by, who studied them in detail.

The sequence $\left \langle {F_n}\right \rangle$ was known to Indian mathematicians as long ago as the $7$th century C.E.

It was also studied by before $1135$, and by  in about $1150$.

Hence some sources refer to these numbers as the Gopala-Hemachandra numbers.

They are also discussed by in his work of $1611$ De Nive Sexangula (On the Six-Cornered Snowflake). It is suspected that was himself unfamiliar with 's work.

himself had noticed the appearance of Fibonacci numbers in the growth of plants:
 * It is in the likeness of this self-developing series that the faculty of propagation is, in my opinion, formed; and so in a flower the authentic flag of this faculty is shown, the pentagon. I pass over all the other arguments that a delightful rumination could adduce in proof of this.