Denys Fisher Denys Fisher Denys Fisher (11 May 1918 – 17 September 2002) was an English engineer who invented the spirograph toy and created the company Denys Fisher Toys. He left Leeds University to join the family firm, Kingfisher (Lubrication) Ltd. In 1960 he left the firm to set up his own company, Denys Fisher Engineering, in Leeds. In 1961 the company won a contract with NATO to supply springs and precision components for its 20 mm cannon. Between 1962 and 1964 he developed various drawing machines from Meccano pieces, eventually producing a prototype Spirograph. Patented in 16 countries, it went on
Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means numbers in the case . An example of this case is : Averaging two different numbers produces two equal numbers, but the third one is still different. Therefore, we never actually get an inequality involving the geometric mean of three equal numbers. Hence, an additional trick or a modified argument is necessary to turn the above idea into a valid proof for the case . With the arithmetic mean of the non-negative real numbers , the AM–GM statement is equivalent to with equality if and only if for all . For the following proof we apply mathematical induction and only