Onofrio Puglisi

Onofrio Puglisi, also known as Onofrio Pugliesi Sbernia, was an Italian mathematician from Palermo who died on 11 January 1679. He is described as the first writer of accounting books in southern Italy. His Aritmetica, first printed in 1634, was still being reissued in a fourth edition at Palermo in 1714, and his Prattica economica numerale, a work on numerical economic practice, was published at Palermo in 1671. Both books show the practical, commercial side of seventeenth-century Italian mathematics, in which arithmetic and bookkeeping were taught together for merchants.