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Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa (c. 1175 c. 1250)
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- "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages"
- his book Liber Abaci (1202) popularized the Hindu-Arabic numeral systems in Europe
- travelled extensively around the Mediterranean coast, meeting with many merchants and learning about their systems of doing arithmetic
- first one to describe Fibonacci sequence
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