Fibonacciįibonacci ended his travels around the year 1200 and at that time he returned to Pisa.
There, when I had been introduced to the art of the Indians’ nine symbols through remarkable teaching, knowledge of the art very soon pleased me above all else and I came to understand it, for whatever was studied by the art in Egypt, Syria, Greece, Sicily and Provence, in all its various forms. When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting. Fibonacci writes in his famous book Liber abaci (1202). Fibonacci was taught mathematics in Bugia and travelled widely with his father and recognised the enormous advantages of the mathematical systems used in the countries they visited. The town lies at the mouth of the Wadi Soummam near Mount Gouraya and Cape Carbon. 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. Fibonacci was born in Italy but was educated in North Africa where his father, Guilielmo, held a diplomatic post.
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