The young Fibonacci learned the “nine figures of the numbers used by the Hindus.”

Later he became a merchant visiting Egypt, Syria, Greece, Sicily, Provence and Byzantium, and observing the manner in which mathematics was taught there. (Fibonacci, Liber abaci, quoted after Maria Muccillo)

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