Luca Pacioli
Fra. Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (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.
Luca Pacioli | |
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Portrait of Luca Pacioli, traditionally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, 1495 | |
| Born | c. 1447 |
| Died | 19 June 1517 (aged 69–70) Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence |
| Citizenship | Florentine |
| Occupation(s) | Friar, mathematician, writer |
| Known for | Summa de arithmetica, Divina proportione, double-entry bookkeeping |
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".
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