Person: Alberti, Leone Battista

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Leone Alberti was an Italian mathematician who wrote the first general treatise on the laws of perspective and also wrote a book on cryptography containing the first example of a frequency table.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 18 February 1404, Genoa, French Empire (now Italy). Died 3 April 1472, Rome, Papal States (now Italy).

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Architecture, Geometry, Origin Italy


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Github:
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@J-J-O'Connor
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References

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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive