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Also Known As Leonardo of Pisa • Leonardo Pisano • Leonardo Fibonacci
Born c.1170 • Pisa? • Italy
Died After 1240
Subjects Of Study Fibonacci number • square number • Hindu-Arabic numerals • number game

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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Cardano, Girolamo
Girolamo Cardano
Italian physician and mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Dedekind
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
Sophie Germain
French mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician
André Weil
French mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician

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