Francois Edouard Anatole Lucas was a French mathematician, born on 4 April 1842 and died on 3 October 1891. He is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence, in which each term is the sum of the two before it, and of the Tower of Hanoi, a puzzle about moving stacked discs between pegs. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him, so his name survives in the vocabulary of number theory and recreational mathematics alike.
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his study of the Fibonacci sequence and the Tower of Hanoi
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was a French mathematician
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Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers
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In number theory, Lucas's theorem expresses the remainder of division of the binomial coefficient
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The Lucas sequence is an integer sequence named after the mathematician François Édouard Anatole Lucas (1842-1891), who studied both
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