Luca Pacioli

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June

1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da
Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred
to as "The Father of Accounting and Bookkeeping" in Europe and he was the first
person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the
continent. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro,
Tuscany.

Luca Pacioli was born between 1446 and 1448 in the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro
where he received an abbaco education. This was education in the vernacular (i.e., the
local tongue) rather than Latin and focused on the knowledge required of merchants.
His father was Bartolomeo Pacioli; however, Luca Pacioli was said to have lived with
the Befolci family as a child in his birth town Sansepolcro. He moved to Venice around
1464, where he continued his own education while working as a tutor to the three sons
of a merchant. It was during this period that he wrote his first book, a treatise on
arithmetic for the boys he was tutoring. Between 1472 and 1475, he became a
Franciscan friar. Thus, he could be referred to as Fra ('Friar') Luca.

In 1475, he started teaching in Perugia as a private teacher before becoming first

chair in mathematics in 1477. During this time, he wrote a comprehensive textbook in
the vernacular for his students. He continued to work as a private tutor of
mathematics and was instructed to stop teaching at this level in Sansepolcro in 1491.
In 1494, his first book, Summa de arithmetica, geometria, Proportioni et
proportionalita, was published in Venice. In 1497, he accepted an invitation from
Duke Ludovico Sforza to work in Milan. There he met, taught mathematics to,
collaborated, and lived with Leonardo da Vinci. In 1499, Pa cioli and Leonardo were
forced to flee Milan when Louis XII of France seized the city and drove out their
patron. Their paths appear to have finally separated around 1506. Pacioli died at about
the age of 70 on 19 June 1517, most likely in Sansepolcro, where it is thought that he
had spent much of his final years.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli