![]() ![]() Fibonacci was born around 1175 to Guglielmo, a wealthy Italian merchant and, by some accounts, the consul for Pisa. He also introduced Europe to the sequence of Fibonacci numbers, which he used as an example in Liber Abaci. Fibonacci popularized the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in the Western World primarily through his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation). The name he is commonly called, "Fibonacci" was made up in 1838 by the Franco-Italian historian Guillaume Libri and is short for filius Bonacci ("son of Bonacci") and he is also known as Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo of Pisa, Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, or Leonardo Fibonacci. He was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages". One of Pisa's most famous citizens honored here is Leonardo Fibonacci. It houses a number of Roman sarcophagi and the burial places of some of Pisa's most famous citizens. The Campo Santo, also known as Camposanto Monumentale ("monumental cemetery") or Camposanto Vecchio ("old cemetery"), is a historical edifice at the northern edge of the Cathedral Square in Pisa, Italy. ![]() Leonardo Fibonacci, Camposanto Monumentale, Campo dei Miracoli, Pisa, Italy ![]()
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