Luca Bartolomes Pacioli , known as Luca di Borgo (1445 with Borgo Sansepolcro in Tuscan - 1514 or 1517 with Rome), is a monk Italian Mathématicien .

Life

Lucas Pacioli studied in Venice and Rome. He becomes monk franciscain in the years 1470. He is professor of mathematics through Italy until in 1497 date on which he agrees an invitation of Ludovico Sforza known as He Moro to come to work with Milan. He collaborates in it with Leonardo da Vinci with which he lives and to which he teaches mathematics. In 1499, Pacioli and da Vinci are forced to flee Milan following the seat of the city by Louis XII which takes the city and expels their guard of it. After that, da Vinci and Pacioli travel frequently together.

Work

Luca Pacioli is regarded as the inventor of the accountancy with the Venetian method to keep the accounts, now known under the name of partly double Comptabilité.

• Summa of arithmetica, geometria, of proportioni and proportionalita (Venice, 1494), summarizes the whole of mathematical knowledge of its time, mainly in Algèbre. It is in this text that it presents the Venetian method of behavior of the accounts. One credits Pacioli with the “invention” of accountancy in this work when well even it made there only compile the knowledge of the merchants of his time on the matter.
• Of viribus quantitatis (ms. Università degli Studi di Bologna, 1496-1508), treated mathematics.
• Of divina proportions (written in Milan between 1496 and 1498 and published in Venice in 1509) milked primarily Golden section and is illustrated by his/her friend Léonard de Vinci. Two versions of the manuscript are preserved, one in Biblioteca ambrosiana of Milan, the other at the Public library and academic of Geneva. Work treats also use of the prospect by the painters Piero della Francesca, Melozzo de Forlì and Marco Palmezzano. The third volume of the work is a translation in Italian of the work (in Latin) of Piero della Francesca on the five solids regular but does not include any reference to the original author. Pacioli will be hard criticized to have done that by Giorgio Vasari. Let us note while passing that the “M” of the logo of the Metropolitan Museum off Art of New York is drawn from the Divina proportions .

External bonds

• the mystery about the portrait of Luca Pacioli

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