The secret formula : how a mathematical duel inflamed Renaissance Italy and uncovered the cubic equation

The secret formula : how a mathematical duel inflamed Renaissance Italy and uncovered the cubic equation

The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation. Niccolò Tartaglia was a ta...

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Main Author: Toscano, Fabio (Author)
Other Authors: Sangalli, Arturo, 1940- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Tartaglia, Niccolò, > -1557.
Cardano, Girolamo, > 1501-1576.
Cardano, Girolamo, > 1501-1576
Tartaglia, Niccolò, > -1557
Cardano, Girolamo > 1501-1576
Tartaglia, Niccolò > 1500-1557
1500-1599
Algebra > History > 16th century.
Equations > History.
Equations, Cubic > History.
MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.
Algebra
Equations
Equations, Cubic
Ars Magna.
Arturo Sangalli.
Blaise Pascal.
Cardano-Tartaglia formula.
Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Euler's Pioneering Equation.
Ian Stewart.
Isaac Newton.
Italian Renaissance.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
Leibniz.
Lodovico Ferrari.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi.
Omar Khayyám.
Pierre de Fermat.
Rafael Bombelli.
Renaissance men.
Robin Wilson.
Scipione del Ferro.
Significant Figures.
algebra.
binomial coefficients.
binomial theorem.
coefficients.
imaginary numbers.
negative numbers.
roots of the cubic function.
Electronic books.
History

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