in 1963, with the american mathematician verner e. hoggatt, brousseau founded the fibonacci association with the intention of promoting research into the fibonacci numbers and related fields. in 1969 brousseau commented on the fibonacci association (and its associated journal, the "fibonacci quarterly") in the april edition of time magazine, " "we got a group of people together in 1963, and just like a bunch of nuts, we started a mathematics magazine... <nowiki>[people]</nowiki> tend to find an esthetic satisfaction in it. they think that there's some kind of mystical connection between these numbers and the universe."