Piero Borgi (
Venice
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, 1424–1484) was a versatile
Italian
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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. Borgi is the author of several of the best Italian books on
mathematics
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written in the 15th century. Borgi's books include '','' written in 1483; ''Arithmetica,'' written in 1484, a book on
arithmetic
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; and ''Il Libro de Abacho de Arithmetica e De Arte Mathematiche.'' The later book was so successful that it went through seventeen editions.
Notes
External links
St Andrews College*D E Smith, The First Great Commercial Arithmetic, Isis 8 (1) (1926), 41–49.
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1424 births
1484 deaths
15th-century Italian mathematicians