LEONARDO FIBONACCI

Leonardo grew up with a North African education under the Moors and later travelled

extensively around the Mediterranean coast. He would have met with many merchants

and learned of their systems of doing arithmetic. He soon realised the many advantages

of the "Hindu-Arabic" system over all the others.

Leonardo Fibonacci was born in 1170 and died around 1240 aged around 70

INFO ABOUT FIBONACCI

Leonardo Bonacci —known as Fibonacci, and also

Leonardo of Pisa, Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, Leonardo

Fibonacci—was an Italian mathematician, considered

to be "the most talented Western mathematician of

the Middle Ages."

WHAT IS HE FAMOUS FOR?

● He was famous for being the greatest European mathematician of the

middle ages.

● He introduced the decimal system to Europe.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci

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