Continued proportions and Tartaglia's solution of cubic equations

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2015.03.004zbMath1330.01023OpenAlexW1991669947MaRDI QIDQ891753

Satyanad Kichenassamy

Publication date: 17 November 2015

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2015.03.004

zbMATH Keywords

cubic equationsCardanoTartagliaPaciolicontinued proportions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations in general fields (12E12) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of field theory (12-03)

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Cites Work

• The calculus of square and cube roots in Italy from Fibonacci to Bombelli
• Jacopo da Firenze and the beginning of Italian vernacular algebra
• Niccolò Tartaglia's poetic solution to the cubic equation
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