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Edouard Zeckendorf

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Born May 2, 1901, died May 16, 1983. Belgian Army doctor, mathematician. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Liège. During World War II he was a prisoner of war. In mathematics, he studied the Fibonacci numbers extensively and formulated Zeckendorf's theorem, about the representation of integers as sums of Fibonacci numbers.

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E. Zeckendorf, Edouard Zeckendorff

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Cross-references: sums, integers, representation, Zeckendorf's theorem, Fibonacci numbers
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