1170 - 1240
Fibonacci (; also US: , Italian: [fiboˈnattʃi]; c. 1170 – c. 1240–50), also known as Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo of Pisa, or Leonardo Bigollo Pisano ('Leonardo the Traveller from Pisa'), was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".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'). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fibonacci has received more than 3,501,025 page views. His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 110 in 2019). Fibonacci is the 14th most popular mathematician (down from 12th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Italy (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Mathematician.
Fibonacci is most famous for the Fibonacci sequence, which is a sequence of numbers that starts with 0 and 1. The sequence progresses by adding the previous two numbers to get the next number.
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Among mathematicians, Fibonacci ranks 14 out of 823. Before him are Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, Bernhard Riemann, and Pierre de Fermat. After him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Pierre-Simon Laplace, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Henri Poincaré, and Diophantus.
350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 83.48
Rank: 8
350 - 415
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 9
1872 - 1970
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 10
973 - 1048
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 11
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
Rank: 12
1601 - 1665
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 13
1170 - 1240
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 14
1928 - 2015
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 15
1749 - 1827
HPI: 77.98
Rank: 16
1903 - 1957
HPI: 77.46
Rank: 17
1736 - 1813
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 18
1854 - 1912
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 19
201 - 300
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1170, Fibonacci ranks 1. After him are Saint Dominic, Valdemar II of Denmark, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Walther von der Vogelweide, Constantine Laskaris, Hermann von Salza, Isabella of Hainault, Muqali, Jayadeva, Otto I, Count of Burgundy, and Pierre de Castelnau. Among people deceased in 1240, Fibonacci ranks 1. After him are Ibn Arabi, Razia Sultana, Raymond Nonnatus, Constance of Hungary, Konrad von Thüringen, Jacques de Vitry, Chormaqan, Llywelyn the Great, and Skule Bårdsson.
1170 - 1240
HPI: 79.18
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1170 - 1221
HPI: 76.54
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1170 - 1241
HPI: 68.40
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1170 - 1220
HPI: 66.93
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1170 - 1230
HPI: 64.89
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1170 - 1205
HPI: 63.47
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1170 - 1239
HPI: 63.13
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1170 - 1190
HPI: 61.32
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1170 - 1223
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 9
1170 - 1245
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 10
1170 - 1200
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 11
1170 - 1208
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 12
1170 - 1240
HPI: 79.18
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1165 - 1240
HPI: 76.04
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1205 - 1240
HPI: 63.04
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1204 - 1240
HPI: 57.55
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1180 - 1240
HPI: 57.24
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1206 - 1240
HPI: 55.29
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1170 - 1240
HPI: 54.42
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HPI: 52.40
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1173 - 1240
HPI: 51.63
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1189 - 1240
HPI: 49.52
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Among people born in Italy, Fibonacci ranks 58 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Pius XII (1876), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Sophia Loren (1934), Empedocles (-490), and Federico Fellini (1920). After him are Lucretius (-94), Pope Clement VII (1478), Umberto Eco (1932), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Vespasian (9), and Antonio Stradivari (1644).
1876 - 1958
HPI: 79.51
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1608 - 1647
HPI: 79.49
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1567 - 1643
HPI: 79.43
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1934 - Present
HPI: 79.38
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490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 79.37
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1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
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1170 - 1240
HPI: 79.18
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94 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 79.18
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1478 - 1534
HPI: 79.12
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1932 - 2016
HPI: 79.11
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1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
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9 - 79
HPI: 78.98
Rank: 63
1644 - 1737
HPI: 78.94
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Among mathematicians born in Italy, Fibonacci ranks 2. Before him are Archimedes (-287). After him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Luca Pacioli (1445), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Archytas (-428), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Philolaus (-470), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).
287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 91.69
Rank: 1
1170 - 1240
HPI: 79.18
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1736 - 1813
HPI: 76.72
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1445 - 1517
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 4
1501 - 1576
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 5
428 BC - 347 BC
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 6
1718 - 1799
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 7
470 BC - 390 BC
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 8
1499 - 1557
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 9
1858 - 1932
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 10
1598 - 1647
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 11
1522 - 1565
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 12