Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician born around 1170 in Pisa, Italy. He introduced the Indo-Arabic numeral system to Europe, which uses positional notation with the numbers 0 through 9. He is also known for the Fibonacci sequence, where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. Fibonacci wrote several books on mathematics, including one at age 32 introducing the concept of zero and the Indo-Arabic numeral system to Europe. He died around 1250 in Pisa.