- Verner Emil Hoggatt, Jr.
Verner Emil Hoggatt, Jr. (
June 26 ,1921 –August 11 ,1980 ) [Social Security Death Index ] [ [http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi California Death Index] ] was an Americanmathematician , known mostly for his work inFibonacci numbers andnumber theory .Hogatt received a
Ph.D. fromOregon State University in 1955 for hisdissertation on The Inverse Weierstrass P-Function. [MathGenealogy|id=503] Besides his contributions inFibonacci Numbers andNumber theory it is as the co-founder of theFibonacci association and publisher of the associated journal "Fibonacci Quarterly ", for which he is best remembered.The late
Howard Eves commented that, "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".References
* [http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hoggatt.html Verner Hoggatt Biography]
* [http://www.goldenmuseum.com/1601Mathematics_engl.html Fibonacci mathematicians of the 20th century]External links
* [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/Fibonacci/index.html The Official website of the Fibonacci Association]
* [http://www.engineering.sdstate.edu/~fib/ The Fibonacci Quarterly]ee also
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Fibonacci numbers
*The Fibonacci Association
*Alfred Brousseau
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