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The Many Names

Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci was born in 1170 in Pisa [1, p. 604]. His name at birth was simply Leonardo, but in popular works today he is most commonly referred to as Fibonacci (from filio Bonacij, literally meaning son of Bonacci, but here taken as of the family Bonacci, since his father's name was not Bonacci, according to [1, p. 604]). Interestingly enough there is no proof that Fibonacci was known as such in his own time, and it has been suggested that the name Fibonacci originated with Guillame Libri [3, xv]. Fibonacci was also known by the nickname "Bigollo", which may be taken to mean loafer, and may have expressed the general lack of interest in the purely theoretical mathematics Fibonacci showed interest in. However Bigollo may also be interpreted as "well traveled", which adequately describes Fibonacci [2]. However these explanations of the nickname Bigollo have also been termed "fanciful", and having "no merit" [3, xv]. Fibonacci used the name Leonardo Pisano, which simply made reference to his origin in the city of Pisa. Now that the many names of Leonard

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Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

Leonardo Pisano is better known by his nickname Fibonacci. He was the son of Guilielmo and a member of the Bonacci family. Fibonacci himself sometimes used the name Bigollo, which may mean good-for-nothing or a traveller. As stated in [1]:-

Did his countrymen wish to express by this epithet their disdain for a man who concerned himself with questions of no practical value, or does the word in the Tuscan dialect mean a much-travelled man, which he was?

Fibonacci was born in Italy but was educated in North Africa where his father, Guilielmo, held a diplomatic post. His father's job was to represent the merchants of the Republic of Pisa who were trading in Bugia, later called Bougie and now called Bejaia. Bejaia is a Mediterranean port in northeastern Algeria. The town lies at the mouth of the Wadi Soummam near Mount Gouraya and Cape Carbon. Fibonacci was taught mathematics in Bugia and travelled widely with his father and recognised the enormous advantages of the mathematical systems used in the countries they visited. Fibonacci writes in his famous b

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Fibonacci

Italian mathematician (c. 1170 – c. 1240/50)

For the number sequence, see Fibonacci number. For the Prison Break character, see Otto Fibonacci.

Fibonacci^[b] (,^[4]also;^[5]^[6]Italian:[fiboˈnattʃi]; c. 1170 – c. 1240–50)^[7] was an Italianmathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".^[8]

The name he is commonly called, Fibonacci, was made up in 1838 by the Franco-Italian historian Guillaume Libri^[9]^[10] and is short for filius Bonacci ('son of Bonacci').^[11]^[c] However, even earlier, in 1506, a notary of the Holy Roman Empire, Perizolo mentions Leonardo as "Lionardo Fibonacci".^[12]

Fibonacci popularized the Indo–Arabic numeral system in the Western world primarily through his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation)^[13]^[14] and also introduced Europe to the sequence of Fibonacci numbers, which he used as an example in Li