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Luca Pacioli

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli Italian mathematician (c. 1445 - 1517) Luca Pacioli first published the 'Venetian method' of keeping accounts known as 'double-entry bookkeeping'. He became a Franciscan friar in the 1470s. He was a travelling mathematics teacher until in 1497 he accepted an invitation by Lodovico Sforza to work in Milan where he collaborated with Leonardo da Vinci. He published a number of works on mathematics: Summa de arithmetica, geometrica, proportioni et proportionalita (Venice 1494). In which he describes 'double entry book-keeping'. Geometry (1509) a Latin translation of Euclid. Divina proprotione (Venice 1509). A work on mathematical and artistic proportion that contains some illustrations by Leonardo.

External links

  • Luca Pacioli: The Father of Accounting http://acct.tamu.edu/smith/ethics/pacioli.htm
  • Full Bio of Pacioli (St.Andrews) http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pacioli.html
  • Pacioli Resource site http://www.suburbia.com.au/~pacioli/




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