2. LEONARDO FIBONACCI
Leonardo grew up with a North African education under the Moors and later
travelled extensively around the Mediterranean coast. He would have met with
many merchants and learned of their systems of doing arithmetic. He soon
realised the many advantages of the "Hindu-Arabic" system over all the others.
Leonardo Fibonacci was born in 1170 and died around 1240 aged around 70

3. INFO ABOUT FIBONACCI
 Leonardo Bonacci —known as Fibonacci, and also Leonardo of
Pisa, Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, Leonardo Fibonacci—was an Italian
mathematician, considered to be "the most talented Western
mathematician of the Middle Ages."

4. WHAT IS HE FAMOUS FOR?
● He was famous for being the greatest European mathematician of
the middle ages.
● He introduced the decimal system to Europe.

5. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-
sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci

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