


Bejaia is a Mediterranean port in northeastern Algeria. His father's job was to represent the merchants of the Republic of Pisa who were trading in Bugia, later called Bougie and now called Bejaia. As stated in :-ĭid his countrymen wish to express by this epithet their disdain for a man who concerned himself with questions of no practical value, or does the word in the Tuscan dialect mean a much-travelled man, which he was?įibonacci was born in Italy but was educated in North Africa where his father, Guilielmo, held a diplomatic post.

Fibonacci himself sometimes used the name Bigollo, which may mean good-for-nothing or a traveller. He was the son of Guilielmo and a member of the Bonacci family. Biography Leonardo Pisano is better known by his nickname Fibonacci.
