Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli

Character Traits:

Facts:

Life:
  • Inventive
  • Religious
  • Methodical
  • Unusual
  • He was a Friar, Mathematician, and Writer.
  • He wrote an unpublished treatice on chess.
  • He had collaborated with Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Made a woodcut of the porportions of the human face.
  1. He was born in 1447, at Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence.
  2. He lived with the Befolci family.
  3. He recieved an abbaco education. (calculation education)
  4. He moved to Venice.
  5. He wrote the books, Summa de Arithmetica, and De Divina Proportione.
  6. He invented Double-Entry Bookkeeping (Accounting).
  7. He fled Milan when Louis XII of France siezed the city and drove out his patron.
  8. He died in 1517, at Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence.
A Rhombicuboctahedron.

Legacy:

He advanced Mathematics and revolutionized Accounting.

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Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (Luca Pacioli for short), was a Friar, Mathematician, and Writer.  He was born in 1447, at Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence.  In his Early Life, he recieved an Abbaco Education.  His father was Bartolomeo Pacioli, though he is said to have lived