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Piero Borgi

Piero Borgi (Venice, 1424–1484) was a versatile Italian mathematician. Borgi is the author of several of the best Italian books on mathematics written in the 15th century. Borgi's books include , written in 1483; Arithmetica, written in 1484, a book on arithmetic; and Il Libro de Abacho de Arithmetica e De Arte Mathematiche. The later book was so successful that it went through seventeen editions.

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  • St Andrews College
  • D E Smith, The First Great Commercial Arithmetic, Isis 8 (1) (1926), 41–49.