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Edouard Zeckendorf

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Mathematician, military officer, physician (1901-1983)

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Edouard Zeckendorf was a Belgian doctor, army officer and amateur mathematician.

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1950Officer of the Order of Leopold II
1949Officer of the Order of Leopold
1946Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown
1946Prisoner of War Medal 1940-1945

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Edouard Zeckendorf was a Belgian doctor, army officer and amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is best known for his work on Fibonacci numbers and in particular for discovering and proving what is now known as Zeckendorf's theorem: every positive whole number is either a Fibonacci number or can be written as a sum of distinct non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

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Lived 1901 to 1983 · aged 82
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