Abstract
A note from May 1914 by a certain Agronomof in the Belgian journal Mathesis is frequently cited in the context of the mathematical history of the Tribonacci number sequence. We round out the historical perspective by providing details on Agronomof’s life and work, and highlight two late-nineteenth-century occurrences of this number sequence. One occurrence is connected to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Furthermore, we show that the main identity in Agronomof’s note can be leveraged to derive several nontrivial identities with surprising ease and elegance. Some of these identities have only recently been proven by different and more laborious methods; others are new.
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