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

    Biography

    Leone Battista Alberti's father was Lorenzo Alberti.

    We do not know who his mother was, and there is reason to believe that he was an illegitimate child. His father's family were wealthy and had been involved in banking and commercial business in Florence during the 14th century.

    In fact the success of the city of Florence during this period is to a large extent a consequence of the success of the Alberti family, whose firm had branches spread widely through north Italy. Not content with their major financial achievements, however, members of the family became involved in politics.

    This turned out to be a disaster and the family was dr