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15th-century Italian mathematicians

  • Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on the 15th of April 1452 near the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. His father, a notary named Ser Piero, and his mother, a…
  • Luca PacioliLuca Bartolomeo de Pacioli arrived in the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro between 1446 and 1448. He grew up living with the Befolci family while his father…
  • Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti was born on the 14th of February 1404 in Genoa. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, was a wealthy Florentine who had been exiled…