Leonardo of Pisa

noun

1. See Fibonacci

Example Sentences

The man who reintroduced zero to the West was Leonardo of Pisa.

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That state of affairs started to change soon after 1202, the year a young Italian man, Leonardo of Pisa — the man who many centuries later a historian would dub “Fibonacci” — completed the first general purpose arithmetic book in the West, Liber abbaci, that explained the “new” methods in terms that ordinary people could understand — tradesmen and businessmen as well as schoolchildren.

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Just as we can come to understand great novelists through their books or accomplished composers through their music — particularly if we understand the circumstances in which they created — so too we can come to understand Leonardo of Pisa.

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It is based on a formula developed by a 13th century mathematician, Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, who discovered the sequence while studying the reproduction rate of rabbits.

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Geometry received another impetus in the book written by Leonardo of Pisa in 1220, the "Practica Geometriae."

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