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Luca Pacioli

1445 - 1517

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Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, O.F.M. (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) 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 father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luca Pacioli has received more than 1,542,705 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Luca Pacioli is the 23rd most popular mathematician (up from 24th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Italy (up from 145th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Mathematician.

Luca Pacioli is most famous for his work on double-entry bookkeeping. He also wrote a book called "Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita" which was published in 1494.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Luca Pacioli ranks 23 out of 1,004. Before him are David Hilbert, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Henri Poincaré, Joseph Fourier, Hero of Alexandria, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. After him are John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, John Forbes Nash Jr., Évariste Galois, Apollonius of Perga, and John Napier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1445, Luca Pacioli ranks 2. Before him is Sandro Botticelli. After him are Meñli I Giray, Al-Suyuti, Giuliano da Sangallo, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, Alvise Vivarini, and Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1517, Luca Pacioli ranks 1. After him are Fra Bartolomeo, Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Gioffre Borgia, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Tuman bay II, Catherine of Navarre, Dayan Khan, Heinrich Isaac, Cima da Conegliano, and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luca Pacioli ranks 141 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Gregory IX (1160), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Cardinal Mazarin (1602), and Enzo Ferrari (1898). After him are Adriano Celentano (1938), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Pope Pius VIII (1761), Pope Formosus (816), Plautus (-254), and Luigi Galvani (1737).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Luca Pacioli ranks 3. Before him are Archimedes (-287), and Fibonacci (1170). After him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Archytas (-428), Philolaus (-470), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).

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