Luca Pacioli
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Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli 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
Portrait of Luca Pacioli, traditionally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, 1495
A woodcut of Pacioli which appears throughout the Summa de arithmetica
The first printed illustration of a rhombicuboctahedron, by Leonardo da Vinci, published in Divina proportione
Woodcut illustrating the proportions of the human face from the second part of Divina proportione, which covers the Vitruvian system
Summa de arithmetica
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Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita is a book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli and first published in 1494. It contains a comprehensive summary of Renaissance mathema
Luca Pacioli
…continued to work as a private tutor of mathematics and was instructed to stop teaching at this level in Sansepolcro in 1491. In 1494, his first book, Summa de arithmetica, geometria, Proportioni et proportionalita, was published in Venice. In 1497, he accepted an invitation from Duke Ludovico Sforza to work in Milan. There he met, taught mathematics to, collaborated…
Title page of the second (1523) edition
Dedication page of the first (1494) edition