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**Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe**

"_....this note focuses on Leonardo Fibonacci’s experience in North Africa that led him to interact with the scientists at the court of Frederick II, Stupor Mundi. This encounter had several important consequences, among which the introduction in the Western world of the Hindo-Arabic numbering system and the beginning of the transition from Arabic to Latin as the language of science and mathematics._"

Struppa, D. (2024) “Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe”, Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, 57(387), pp. FP202–FP221. doi: https://doi.org/10.35352/gioenia.v57i387.122.

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