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known as Leonardo of Pisa (or Leonarde Pisano), Fibonacc was born in the commercial center of Pisa, where his father was connected with the mercantile business. Many of the large Italian businesses in those days maintained warehouses in various parts of the Medterranean world. It was in this way, when his father was serving as a customs manager, that young Leonardo was brought up in Bougie on the north coast of Africa. The father's occupation early roused in |
the boy an interest in arithmetic,
and subsequent extended trips to Egypt, Sicily, Greece, and Syria
btought him in contact with Eastern and Arabic mathematical practices.
Thoroughly convinced of the practical superiority of the Hindu-Arabic methods of
calculation, Fibonacci, in 1202, shortly after his return home, published his
famous work called the Liber abaci.
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