(15. 4. 1452 Anchiano near Vinci, IT – 2. 5. 1519 Cloux near Amboise, FR)
Student of Argyropoulos in Florence
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
His genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal; he is the archetype of the Renaissance Man
Worked in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Venice, and Cloux
Collaborator of Pacioli
Credit, Wikipedia. Available online http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
The Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Available online http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=131700
The MacTutor History of Mathematics.
Available online http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leonardo.html