The Fibonacci Day Celebration took place on Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 from 5 pm until 6 pm, with Miriam Baez, math communicator and academic of the Actuary School in the Veracruz Anahuac University in Mexico, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker explained that the Fibonacci Sequence is a sequence of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34… Miriam Baez described the relation between the Fibonacci Sequence, the golden ratio and Pascal’s Triangle and showed examples of where we can find this sequence of numbers in nature, in art, in architecture, in music, in computing, among others. The speaker also mentioned that the Fibonacci Day is celebrated today November 23rd since the date written in the format 11/23 corresponds to the first terms of the Fibonacci Sequence.
