ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Scipione del Ferro
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Italian mathematician.
- First one to come up with a solution to the general cubic equation, which was later published by Cardano and is now known as Cardano's Formula.
- Contributed towards the rationalization of fractions.
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Nationality
Italian
History
- Born: 6 Feb 1465, Bologna, Italy
- Died: 5 Nov 1526, Bologna, Italy
Theorems
- Cardano's Formula, possibly also Ferrari's Method. It is difficult to be certain exactly who these early results originated with.
Books and Papers
- A famous notebook, which appears unfortunately not to have survived.
Also See
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Scipione del Ferro": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Allan Clark: Elements of Abstract Algebra (1971)... (previous)... (next): Introduction
