Publisher's Synopsis
This volume includes a collection of papers dealing with number patterns, linear recurrences and the application of the Fibonacci numbers to probability, statistics, differential equations, cryptography, computer science and elementary number theory. It is a continuation of the work presented in the previously published proceedings of the earlier conferences, and shows the growing interest in, and importance of, the pure and applied aspects of Fibonacci numbers in many different areas of science.;The book should be of interest to those whose work involves number theory, statistics and probability, algebra, numerical analysis, group theory and generalizations.