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1. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL -- in chronological order ALCUIN (c735804) Phillip Drennon Thomas. Alcuin of York. DSB I, 104105. Robert Adamson. Alcuin, or Albinus. DNB, (I, 239240), 20. Andrew Fleming West. Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. (The Great Educators -- III.) Heinemann, 1893. The only book on Alcuin that I found which deals with the Propositiones. Stephen Allott. Alcuin of York c. A.D. 732 to 804 -- his life and letters. William Sessions, York, 1974. FIBONACCI [LEONARDO PISANO] (c1170-1240) See also the entries for Fibonacci in Common References. Fibonacci. (1202 -- first paragraph); 1228 -- second paragraph, on p. 1. In this paragraph he narrates almost everything we know about him. [In the second ed., he inserted a dedication as the first paragraph.] The paragraph ends with the notable sentence which I have used as a motto for this work. Si quid forte minus aut plus iusto vel necessario intermisi, mihi deprecor indulgeatur, cum nemo sit qui vitio careat et in omnibus undique sit circumspectus. (If I have perchance omitted anything more or less proper or necessary, I beg indulgence, since there is no one who is blameless and utterly provident in all things. [Grimms translation.]) Richard E. Grimm. The autobiography of Leonardo Pisano. Fibonacci Quarterly 11:1 (Feb 1973) 99-104. He has collated six MSS of the autobiographical paragraph and presents his critical version of it, with English translation and notes. Sigler, below, gives another translation. I give Grimms translation, omitting his notes. After my fathers appointment by his homeland as state official in the customs house of Bugia for the Pisan merchants who thronged to it, he took charge; and, in view of its future usefulness and convenience, had me in my boyhood come to him and there wanted me to devote myself to and be instructed in the study of calculation for some days. There, following my introduction, as a consequence of marvelous instruction