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Why is the famous mathematician Thomas Conway Silverstein famous?
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He is famous for his work on the mathematics of the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio. The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers that starts with 0 and 1, and then every number in the sequence is the sum of the two previous numbers. The Golden Ratio is a number that is approximately 1.618. The Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio are both important to many different areas of mathematics.