ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
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Italian mathematician, engineer and surveyor.
- Published first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid.
- Devised a solution to the general cubic equation independently of Scipione del Ferro, later published by Cardano and now known as Cardano's Formula.
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Nationality
Italian
History
- Born: 1499 or 1500
- 1512: Suffered a war injury to his face resulting in an inability to speak clearly, which earned him the nickname "Tartaglia" ("Stammerer").
- Died: December 13, 1557
Theorems
- Tartaglia's Formula for the volume of any irregular tetrahedron.
- Tartaglia's Triangle, also known as Pascal's Triangle.
Books and Papers
- Translation into Italian of Euclid's The Elements (1543).
Also See
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Allan Clark: Elements of Abstract Algebra (1971)... (previous)... (next): Introduction
