ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Paolo Ruffini
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Italian mathematician and philosopher.
Most famous for his incomplete proof of what is now known as the Abel-Ruffini Theorem proving the insolubility of the general quintic with radicals.
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Nationality
Italian
History
- Born: 22 Sept 1765 in Valentano, Papal States (now Italy)
- Died: 10 May 1822 in Modena, Duchy of Modena (now Italy)
Theorems and Definitions
Books and Papers
- 1799: La teoria generale delle equazioni in cui è provato che la soluzione algebrica di equazioni di grado maggiore di 4 è impossibile (The general theory by which it is proved that the solution of algebraic equations of order greater than 4 is impossible)
- 1802: Riflessioni intorno alla rettificazione ed alla quadratura del circulo (on squaring the circle)
- 1802: Della soluzione delle equazioni algebraiche determinata partocolari di grado sup. al 4º (The solution of particular equations whose order is greater than 4)
- 1804: Sopra la determinazione delle radici nelle equazioni numeriche di qualunque grado
- 1806: Della immortalità dell'anima (On the immortality of the soul)
- 1807: Algebra elementare (Elementary algebra)
- 1820: Memoria sul tifo contagioso (Memoir on contagious typhus)
- 1821: Riflessioni critiche sopra il saggio filosofico intorno alle probabilità del signor conte Laplace (Critical review on the philosophical writing of Laplace on probability)
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My Italian is not good - I may have mistranslated or misinterpreted some of the above.
Also see
- Allan Clark: Elements of Abstract Algebra (1971)... (previous)... (next): Introduction
