Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who was famed for his algebraic solution of cubic equations, which was eventually published in Cardan's Ars Magna. He was born in Brescia, in the Republic of Venice, around 1500 and died in Venice on 13 December 1557. He was one of the Italian algebraists whose sixteenth-century formulas for the roots of cubic equations led mathematicians to take complex numbers seriously, together with Cardano and Ferrari, and he figures in the long dispute over who first solved the cubic.
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Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who was famed for his algebraic solution of cubic equations which was eventually published in Cardan's Ars Magna .
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Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who was famed for his algebraic solution of cubic equations which was eventually published in Cardan's Ars Magna .
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They became more prominent when in the 16th century closed formulas for the roots of third and fourth degree polynomials were discovered by Italian mathematicians such as Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia and Gerolamo Cardano
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The impetus to study complex numbers as a topic in itself first arose in the 16th century when algebraic solutions for the roots of cubic and quartic polynomials were discovered by Italian mathematicians (Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia and Gerolamo Cardano)
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They became more prominent when in the 16th century closed formulas for the roots of third and fourth degree polynomials were discovered by Italian mathematicians such as Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia and Gerolamo Cardano
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