| Fibonacci (fē'bə-nä'chē) Pronunciation Key
Italian mathematician who popularized the modern Arabic system of numerals in the western world and discovered the Fibonacci sequence of integers. |
Fibonacci, Leonardo
medieval Italian mathematician who wrote Liber abaci (1202; "Book of the Abacus"), the first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics.
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