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| '''''The Book of Squares''''', '''''(Liber Quadratorum)'''''<ref>Fibonacci, Leonardo Pisano . The Book of Squares (Liber Quadratorum). An annotated translation into modern English by L. E. Sigler. (1987) Orlando, FL: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-643130-8</ref> in the original [[Latin]] is a book on [[algebra]] by [[Leonardo Fibonacci]], published in 1225. [[Brahmagupta–Fibonacci identity|Fibonacci's identity]], establishing that the set of all sums of two squares is closed under multiplication, appears in it. The book anticipated the works of later mathematicians like [[Pierre de Fermat|Fermat]] and [[Leonhard Euler|Euler]].<ref>Berlinghoff, William P. and Quadros Gouvêa (2004). ''Math through the ages: a gentle history for teachers and others''. MAA, p. 34. ISBN 0-88385-736-7</ref> The book examines several topics in [[number theory]],<ref>McClenon, R. B., "Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum", American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 26, No. 1, January 1919, pp. 1–8.</ref> among them an inductive method for finding [[Pythagorean triple]]s based on the sequence of odd integers, and on the fact that the sum of the first <math>n</math> members of this sequence is <math>n^2</math>.
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| *[http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1296&bodyId=1433 Fibonacci and Square Numbers] at [http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/ Convergence]
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