Book:Leonardo Fibonacci/Liber Quadratorum
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Leonardo Fibonacci: Liber Quadratorum
Published $\text {1225}$
In English:
- The Book of Square Numbers
Subject Matter
Contents
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Historical Note
Leonardo Fibonacci relates in the prologue how he was invited to the court of Emperor Frederick $\text {II}$ of Sicily to compete in a mathematical tournament.
He solved all the problems presented to him by Johannes of Palermo.
The problems and their answers were published in Flos.
Some suggest that they were also published in Liber Quadratorum, but it has not been possible to corroborate this.
Critical View
- The first Western advances to be made in arithmetic since Diophantus.
- -- David Nelson
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Liber Abaci
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo of Pisa (c. 1175-c. 1250)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo of Pisa (c.1175-c.1250)