Luca Bartolomes Pacioli is widely regarded as the developer of the double-entry accounting system, which revolutionized the way people kept track of money and is still the dominant accounting method in use today. He wrote extensively on the subject and...

c. 1445-1517 Italian mathematician also known as Lucus Paciuolo. A Franciscan friar and something of a traveler, Pacioli became professor of mathematics at Perugia, Rome, Naples, Pisa, and Venice. He produced a number of large volumes of material on...

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445–1514 or 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di...

Abstract: This paper considers the printing of Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (Summa) in 1494. In particular, it attempts to answer the question, how many copies of Summa were printed in 1494? It does so through consideration of the printing...

Abstract Despite the wide cross-disciplinary influence of Fra' Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (Summa), it has been criticized as being both difficult to read and written in a mixture of bad Italian and bad Latin; but, paradoxically, intellectuals of...