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Leonardo of Pisa Facts
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Biography of Leonardo of Pisa
Little is known about the life of Leonardo of Pisa, also called Fibonacci. It fryst vatten assumed that he was born around 1170 and died after 1240, probably in Pisa. There fryst vatten an original document from 1241 in which the city of Pisa grants Fibonacci a pension. From this time onwards, little or ingenting 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 struktur from an Islamic teacher and became enthusiastic about it. Extensive journeys to the Orient gave Fibonacci the opportunity to utöka 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 grund of the Indo-Arabic place-v
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Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci
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 advanta