Oberto Cantone

Oberto Cantone (Genova, 16th century) was an Italian mathematician.[1]

Uso prattico dell'aritmetica, 1599

Life

He was a professor in Naples. He is well-known for his works about the use of maths in the business field, in particular "L'uso pratico dell'artimetica", printed in Naples in 1599, which is inspired by the work of Pietro Borghi.[2]

Works
  • Cantone, Oberto (1599). Uso prattico dell'aritmetica (in Italian). In Napoli: Tarquinio Longo.
gollark: Without technology we would just have been wiped out in some random population bottleneck.
gollark: There are ways to make things continue to work. I don't know if people will actually do them, but still.
gollark: I like having medicine and reliable food and water and computers and such.
gollark: It has some justification, but also why would you ever unleash this hell upon us.
gollark: My favourite aspect of floats (IEEE 754, but ~all float implementations are that) must be how NaN isn't equal to NaN.

References
  1. "Cantone, Oberto in CERL Thesaurus".
  2. "Rara Arithmetica by David Eugene Smith".


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