Fibonacci

Date Submitted: 11/20/2001 20:47:01
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (412 words)
Fibonacci Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician of the 13th Century who helped introduce the Arabic numerals to Europe. Fibonacci's father was a diplomat, and as a result he was educated in Algeria, where he was taught the ten-digit decimal system we use today, and traveled widely in his youth. In 1202, Fibonacci, before the invention of the printing press, wrote Liber Abaci (Book of the Abacus), which was based on arithmetic …
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