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A list of notable mathematicians from Italy by century: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Leonardo Fibonacci (c. 1170–c. 1250), mathematician, eponym of the Fibonacci number sequence, considered to be the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages [2]
14 cze 2019 · Giuseppe Peano (; Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe peˈaːno]; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation.
24 lip 2019 · Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170–1240 or 1250) was an Italian number theorist. He introduced the world to such wide-ranging mathematical concepts as what is now known as the Arabic numbering system, the concept of square roots, number sequencing, and even math word problems.
Fibonacci [b] (/ ˌ f ɪ b ə ˈ n ɑː tʃ i /, [4] also US: / ˌ f iː b-/; [5] [6] Italian: [fiboˈnattʃi]; c. 1170 – c. 1240–50) [7] was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".
Fibonacci was a contemporary of Jordanus but he was a far more sophisticated mathematician and his achievements were clearly recognised, although it was the practical applications rather than the abstract theorems that made him famous to his contemporaries.
Fibonacci, Leonardo da Pisa (ca. 1170-ca. 1240) Italian mathematician who was the first great Western mathematician after the decline of Greek science. The son of a merchant, Fibonacci drew the motivation to mathematical inquiry from his commercial trips to the the Orient.