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Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci) Heather Risley Introduction Leonardo Pisano, also known as Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci, may have been the greatest mathematician of the middle ages. He wrote, among many books and published works, Liber Abaci, which is one of the most important books on mathematics of the Middle Ages. It effected how all of Europe looked at mathematics because it acted as a transition from Roman numerals and the use of the abacus, to the Arabic-Hindu number system and the use of computation, calculation, and algebra. A curriculum based on Leonardo’s Liber Abaci was taught in Tuscany schools of abaco for over three centuries. These schools, which had a merchant based curriculum with a foundation in mathematics without use of the abacus, were normally attended by boys intending to be merchants or by others desiring to learn mathematics. Other very accomplished mathematicians wrote books of abaco for use in these schools, but none of these book

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