
A Look at Luca Pacioli’s “Summa de Arithemtica”
Today’s episode gives a view at the number of pages in Pacioli’s 1494 work, Summary of Arithmetic, which documented bookkeeping. His book is most famous for the bookkeeping section, but it is a very small portion of his book, which was an accumulation of math knowledge to that time. It was written in Italian to be accessible to business people, rather than the academic Latin … Continue reading A Look at Luca Pacioli’s “Summa de Arithemtica”