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Frances Carney Gies
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Coauthor of Leonard of Pisa and the New Mathematics of the Middle Ages.

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Marble statue of Fibonacci in a hooded robe with one hand extended, set against a brick wall and mural in Camposanto cemetery, Pisa, Italy.
Fibonacci was a medieval Italian mathematician who wrote Liber abaci (1202; “Book of the Abacus”), the first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics, which introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe. His name is mainly known because of the Fibonacci sequence. Little is known about…
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