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Giovanni Battista Pisani

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Giovanni Battista Pisani, also known as Gio. Battista Pisani, was a 17th-century Genoese mathematician.

Biography

He wrote The First Book of Modern Cursive Letters (Il primo libro di lettere corsive moderne, 1641) about calligraphy, followed by other educational works, Arithmetic Memorial (Memoriale aritmetico, 1644) and Arithmetic Garden (Giardino aritmetico, 1646), intended to solve arithmetic problems that were especially related to merchant activity.

Works

References

  1. Cerboni, Giuseppe (1887). Sur l'importance d'unifier les études de la comptabilité (in French). Rome: Imprimerie héritiers Botta. p. 132.
  2. Whalley, Joyce Irene (1980). The Pen's Excellencie: Calligraphy of Western Europe and America. Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books. pp. 188, 205.
  3. Atti della Accademia ligure di scienze e lettere (in Italian). Genoa: Accademia ligure di scienze e lettere. 2003. p. 241.
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