"The first printed Author which treats of Algebra is Lucas Pacciolus, or Lucas de Burgo... printed in Venice in the year 1494, (soon after the first Invention of Printing,)... But he therein mentions Leonardus Pisanus, and divers others more ancient than himself, from whom he Learned it; but whose works are not now extant."
History of algebra

January 1, 1970

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