alleryStart learning →Which mathematician first used the name Fibonacci sequence in the 19th century?
ACarl Gauss
BLeonhard Euler
CÉdouard Lucas
DJacques Binet
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Édouard Lucas
The 19th-century number theorist Édouard Lucas first applied the name to the sequence.
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