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Dec072006

the other leonardo

DateThursday, December 7, 2006 at 11:18AM

He was the first great European mathematician since the ancient Greeks. He was capable of extraordinary feats of calculation. He introduced the Hindu-Arabic decimal number system to the Latin-speaking world. And most famously, he discovered the Fibonacci sequence. Today's great Italian is Leonardo da Pisa. 

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