Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (1445 to 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator and Franciscan friar. He wrote one of the earliest compendia of mathematical knowledge to be reproduced on a printing press, the Summa of 1494, which he dedicated to his patron Duke Guidobaldo. He popularized the system of double accounting for keeping financial records and is often known as the father of modern accounting. He became a Minorite Franciscan friar in 1487, spent his early years in Venice and Rome, taught in Perugia, and was a close friend of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 - 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar.
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He popularized the system of double accounting for keeping financial records and is often known as the father of modern accounting.
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He popularized the system of double accounting for keeping financial records and is often known as the father of modern accounting.
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