Luca Pacioli

ThinkersC. 1447 to 1517Mathematician

Works

  • Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita, 1494

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Known for

An Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar whose Summa, printed in Venice, contains one of the first published descriptions of the double-entry bookkeeping used by Venetian merchants.

Caveat: He recorded an existing merchant practice; he did not invent double entry.

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