Leonardo fibonacci contributions to mathematics

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When was fibonacci born and died

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The life and numbers of Fibonacci

For a brief introduction to the Fibonacci sequence, see here.

Fibonacci is one of the most famous names in mathematics. This would come as a surprise to Leonardo Pisano, the mathematician we now know by that name. And he might have been equally surprised that he has been immortalised in the famous sequence – 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... – rather than for what is considered his far greater mathematical achievement – helping to popularise our modern number system in the Latin-speaking world.

The Roman Empire left Europe with the Roman numeral system which we still see, amongst other places, in the copyright notices after films and TV programmes (2013 is MMXIII). The Roman numerals were not displaced until the mid 13th Century AD, and Leonardo Pisano's book, Liber Abaci (which means "The Book of Calculations"), was one of the first Western books to describe their eventual replacement.

Leonardo Fibonacci c1175-1250.

Leonardo Pisano was born late in the twelfth century in Pisa, Italy: Pisano in Italian indicated that he was from Pisa, i

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Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

Leonardo Pisano is better known by his nickname Fibonacci. He was the son of Guilielmo and a member of the Bonacci family. Fibonacci himself sometimes used the name Bigollo, which may mean good-for-nothing or a traveller. As stated in [1]:-

Did his countrymen wish to express by this epithet their disdain for a man who concerned himself with questions of no practical value, or does the word in the Tuscan dialect mean a much-travelled man, which he was?

Fibonacci was born in Italy but was educated in North Africa where his father, Guilielmo, held a diplomatic post. His father's job was to represent the merchants of the Republic of Pisa who were trading in Bugia, later called Bougie and now called Bejaia. Bejaia is a Mediterranean port in northeastern Algeria. The town lies at the mouth of the Wadi Soummam near Mount Gouraya and Cape Carbon. Fibonacci was taught mathematics in Bugia and travelled widely with his father and recognised the enormous advantages of the mathematical systems used in the countries they visited. Fibonacci writes in his famous b

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Biography of Leonardo of Pisa

Little is known about the life of Leonardo of Pisa, also called Fibonacci. It is assumed that he was born around 1170 and died after 1240, probably in Pisa. There is an original document from 1241 in which the city of Pisa grants Fibonacci a pension. From this time onwards, little or nothing is known about his life.

Private scholar and mathematical writer

Fibonacci's father ran a Pisan trading post in Bugia in present-day Algeria. It was there that Fibonacci got to know the Indo-Arabic numeral system from an Islamic teacher and became enthusiastic about it. Extensive journeys to the Orient gave Fibonacci the opportunity to expand and deepen his mathematical knowledge. Around 1200 he returned to Pisa where he lived as a private scholar and mathematical writer. In 1202 his most important work was completed, "Liber abaci", an encyclopaedic arithmetic book, which disclosed arithmetic methods to the Western world on the basis of the Indo-Arabic place-value system.

Corner-stone of a new beginning of applied mathematics

Leonardo of Pisa is now know