Born Antonino Leonardo Accardo ( also known as Anthony Joseph Accardo ) on Chicago's Near West Side, the son of Francesco Accardo, a shoemaker, and Maria Tillota Accardo.

The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was known as Fibonacci.

* 1250 – Leonardo of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci

* Leonardo of Pisa ( Leonardo Fibonacci ) ( d. 1250 ), mathematician

* In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci ’ s design, and the project is a major failure.

* Leonardo of Pisa, Italian mathematician

Liber Abaci ( 1202, also spelled as Liber Abbaci ) is a historic book on arithmetic by Leonardo of Pisa, known later by his nickname Fibonacci.

* Leonardo of Pisa

He devised an approximate numerical solution of equations of the second and third degrees, wherein Leonardo of Pisa must have preceded him, but by a method which was completely lost.

Some of the most widely circulating books, such as the Liber Abaci by Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa, included applications of mathematics and arithmetic to business practice or were business manuals based on sophisticated numeracy and literacy.

This is a condensed form of the Italian censo di censo, used by Leonardo of Pisa in his famous book Liber Abaci of 1202.

Leonardo of Pisa ( Fibonacci ) devoted Chapter 13 of his book Liber Abaci ( AD 1202 ) to explaining and demonstrating the uses of double false position, terming the method regulis elchatayn after the al-khaṭāʾayn method that he had learned from Arab sources.

In the long series of trials, that spanned about two decades and that alternated acquittals with sentences of guilt, the evidence against Sofri was only the confession of pentito (" collaborator of justice ") Leonardo Marino, who accused Sofri of having ordered him, as chief of Lotta Continua, to assassinate Calabresi, during a meeting held on a piazza after a demonstration in Pisa on 13 May 1972, in the name of Franco Serantini, an anarchist who died from lack of care in the police station following a demonstration in the same city on May 5.

Sofri was eventually convicted on the sole words of Leonardo Marino, and sentenced to serve 22 years in the prison of Pisa on 2 May 1990.

After a takeover, in 2009 Perugia Calcio property passed to Perugian entrepreuner and former Pisa owner and chairman Leonardo Covarelli.

Leonardo was not a prolific painter, but he was a most prolific draftsman, keeping journals full of small sketches and detailed drawings recording all manner of things that took his attention.

They represent him further as having made in Venetian painting an advance analogous to that made in Tuscan painting by Leonardo more than twenty years before ; that is, as having released the art from the last shackles of archaic rigidity and placed it in possession of full freedom and the full mastery of its means.

Sfumato is where there are no harsh outlines, and it is painted with full strokes that enhance color and light. The areas blend together Hence the term " Sfumato " was used by Michael J. Gelb on his book How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci to describe one of da Vinci's mental abilities, namely the ability to hold three paradoxical ideas in one's mind without difficulty.

A few days afterwards, having succeeded in making a better telescope than the first, he took it to Venice where he communicated the details of his invention to the public and presented the instrument itself to the doge Leonardo Donato, who was sitting in full council.

Galileo then communicated the details of his invention to the public, and presented the instrument itself to the Doge Leonardo Donato, sitting in full council.

Cesare allowed Leonardo to have full control over all planned and ongoing construction in his domain.

His full name was " Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ", which means " Leonardo, son of Piero, of Vinci ".

The family is currently headed by marchese Vittorio Frescobaldi ( full name: Vittorio Frescobaldi Franceschi Marini ), and his brothers, the Marquis Ferdinando de ' Frescobaldi Franceschi Marini and Leonardo de ' Frescobaldi Franceschi Marini.

Although Marsh had appreciated the drawings of Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo since he was a child — his father ’ s studio was full of reproductions of the old masters ' work — the famous paintings that he saw at the Louvre and other museums stimulated in him a new fascination with the old masters.

Crankshafts were also described by Konrad Kyeser ( d. 1405 ), Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) and a Dutch " farmer " by the name Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1592.

Salai executed a number of paintings under the name of Andrea Salai, but although Vasari claims that Leonardo " taught him a great deal about painting ", his work is generally considered to be of less artistic merit than others among Leonardo's pupils, such as Marco d ' Oggione and Boltraffio.

The perspective in his paintings has influenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few.

The Supreme Court of the Philippines Justice Leonardo Quisumbing on September 12, 2008, allowed Jeff Cagandahan, 27, who has congenital adrenal hyperplasia, to change his birth certificate name from Jennifer to Jeff, and his gender from female to male.

In June 2008 a new film was announced in which Leonardo DiCaprio would portray Bushnell .< ref name =" movie "> Leonardo DiCaprio to portray the Atari and Chuck E. Cheese Founder, Hollywood Newsroom

The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E. Sherwood from the 1928 novel of the same name by Robert Nathan, and was directed by Henry Koster.

A grave marked " J. Dawson " gained fame following the release of the 1997 film Titanic, since the name of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the film is Jack Dawson.

His father, Anthony Prima, was the son of Leonardo Di Prima ( the original family name was Di Prima ), a Sicilian immigrant from Salaparuta, while his mother, Angelina Caravella, had immigrated from Ustica as a baby.

In 1993, the novel was also turned into a feature film ( of the same name ) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin.

* Wise ( Stetsasonic ), real name Leonardo Roman, a hip hop artist known as ' Wise ' from the group ' Stetsasonic '

The original Italian: "< span lang = it > Introduzione al pragmatismo </ span >", Leonardo series 3, < span lang = it > anno </ span > 5, n. 1, February 1907, pp. 26-37, Google Books Eprint .</ ref > which would certainly seem to distinguish it from every other doctrine in whatever branch of science, I was coming to the conclusion that my poor little maxim should be called by another name ; and accordingly, in April 1905, I renamed it Pragmaticism.

After Juan Yagüe's death, the village changed its name to San Leonardo de Yagüe.

Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.

His name is a reference to Leonardo da Vinci.

" Artificial perspective projection " was the name given by Leonardo da Vinci to what today is called " classical perspective projection " and referred to above as the result of a geometric protocol.

" Natural perspective projection " was the name given by Leonardo to the projection that produces the large image beheld by the human eye, which is impossible to replicate on a plane surface.

The book was made into a film of the same name in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll.

That name was changed because of a policeman Leonardo Mayi who worked near the store.

Deriving their name from 13th-century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci and citing musical influence from Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, the band's music was typically characterized by intricate piano and guitar lines, over-the-top and sometimes incomprehensible vocals and frequent use of unconventional instruments such as mandolins, clarinets and Mellotrons.

Das Leben ist schön, sculpture by " Leonardo Rossi ", a fake name often used for plagiarized bronzes.

He was also the voice of King Leonardo in the 1960s TV cartoon series of the same name.

Pisanello had many of his works wrongly ascribed to other artists such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few.