Brother Alfred Brousseau was born in North Beach, San Francisco, as one of six children.
He was accepted into the Christian Brothers novitiate on 31 July 1923 and advanced to the scholasticate on the campus of St. Mary's College in 1924.
[1] In 1926, while still a college student, Brousseau began teaching at Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco, California.
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 ... [People] tend to find an esthetic satisfaction in it.
Brousseau was a keen photographer and amassed a collection of in excess of 20,000 color 35 mm transparencies recording the native flora of California.