Comment Comment by wumms From an archived talk (2011) on wikipedia [0]:"The linked page misleadingly suggests that a certain Cody Birsner discovered the relationship between the series and the fraction, whereas it had been known for a considerable time before".Günter Köhler, 1983 (published in the The Fibonacci Quarterly, 1985; who cites earlier papers from 1977 and 1981): https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/23-1/kohler.pdf[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFibonacci_number%2FArch... parent wumms 6 years ago
"The linked page misleadingly suggests that a certain Cody Birsner discovered the relationship between the series and the fraction, whereas it had been known for a considerable time before".
Günter Köhler, 1983 (published in the The Fibonacci Quarterly, 1985; who cites earlier papers from 1977 and 1981): https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/23-1/kohler.pdf
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFibonacci_number%2FArch...