Which historian coined the name "Fibonacci"?
Guillaume Libri
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Carl Gauss
Answer
Guillaume Libri, a French mathematician and historian, coined the name "Fibonacci" in the 19th century. The name is a combination of the Latin words "filius Bonacci," meaning "son of Bonaccio," which was the nickname of Leonardo of Pisa, the Italian mathematician who introduced the Fibonacci sequence to Europe in the 13th century.
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