Luca Pacioli | |
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Born | c. 1447[2] |
Died | 19 June 1517 Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence | (aged 69–70)
Citizenship | Florentine |
Occupation(s) | Friar, mathematician, writer |
Known for | Summa de arithmetica, Divina proportione, double-entry bookkeeping |
Fra. Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517)[3] was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent.[4][a] He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro, Tuscany.
Several of his works were plagiarised from Piero della Francesca, in what has been called "probably the first full-blown case of plagiarism in the history of mathematics".[5]
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