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Luca Pacioli

1445 - 1517

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Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, O.F.M. (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) 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. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro, Tuscany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luca Pacioli is the 33rd most popular mathematician (down from 23rd in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Italy (down from 141st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Luca Pacioli is most famous for his work on double-entry bookkeeping. He also wrote a book called "Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita" which was published in 1494.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Luca Pacioli ranks 33 out of 1,004. Before him are John von Neumann, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, François Viète, and Kurt Gödel. After him are Niels Henrik Abel, Brahmagupta, Pope Sylvester II, Georg Cantor, Apollonius of Perga, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy.

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Among people born in 1445, Luca Pacioli ranks 2. Before him is Sandro Botticelli. After him are Meñli I Giray, Al-Suyuti, Giuliano da Sangallo, Alvise Vivarini, Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg, and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg. Among people deceased in 1517, Luca Pacioli ranks 1. After him are Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Fra Bartolomeo, Catherine of Navarre, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Dayan Khan, Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Gioffre Borgia, Heinrich Isaac, Cima da Conegliano, and Tuman bay II.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luca Pacioli ranks 236 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Alexander III (1100), Pope Adrian V (1205), Pertinax (126), Catherine of Siena (1347), Giovanni Bellini (1430), and Vitellius (15). After him are Pope Lucius III (1110), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), Pope Damasus I (305), Pope Marcellus I (255), and Guillaume Apollinaire (1880).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Luca Pacioli ranks 5. Before him are Archimedes (-287), Fibonacci (1170), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), and Gerolamo Cardano (1501). After him are Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Archytas (-428), Philolaus (-470), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).

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