Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.
12 Facts About Luca Pacioli
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Luca Pacioli is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent.
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Luca Pacioli was called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro, Tuscany.
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Luca Pacioli was born between 1446 and 1448 in the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro where he received an abbaco education.
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Luca Pacioli's father was Bartolomeo Pacioli; however, Luca Pacioli was said to have lived with the Befolci family as a child in his birth town Sansepolcro.
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Luca Pacioli moved to Venice around 1464, where he continued his own education while working as a tutor to the three sons of a merchant.
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Luca Pacioli continued to work as a private tutor of mathematics and was instructed to stop teaching at this level in Sansepolcro in 1491.
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The third volume of Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione was an Italian translation of Piero della Francesca's Latin book De quinque corporibus regularibus.
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In neither case did Luca Pacioli include an attribution to Piero.
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Luca Pacioli was severely criticized for this and accused of plagiarism by sixteenth-century art historian and biographer Giorgio Vasari.
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Luca Pacioli dramatically affected the practice of accounting by describing the double-entry accounting method used in parts of Italy.
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Luca Pacioli wrote an unpublished treatise on chess, De ludo scachorum.