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...