Piero Borgi
Piero Borgi(Venice,1424–1484) was a versatileItalianmathematician.Borgi is the author of several of the best Italian books onmathematicswritten in the 15th century. Borgi's books includeAddiones in quibus etiam sunt replicae Mathei Boringii,written in 1483;Arithmetica,written in 1484, a book onarithmetic;andIl Libro de Abacho de Arithmetica e De Arte Mathematiche.The later book was so successful that it went through seventeen editions.
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[edit]- St Andrews College
- D E Smith, The First Great Commercial Arithmetic, Isis 8 (1) (1926), 41–49.
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