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Tartaglia
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Niccolo Fontana “Tartaglia”
Niccolo Fontana was born in 1499 in Brescia, Italy, which was a wealthy city. ... That’s where he got his nickname, “Tartaglia,” which means stammerer in Italian. ...
Somewhere in between 1516 and 1518 Tartaglia moved to Verona to settle and became a teacher, got married, and raised a family. ... Fior began to brag that he knew how to solve cubic equations and a challenge between him and Tartaglia was arranged in 1535. Fior was pretty confident that he would be able to beat Tartaglia but Ferro had only taught him how to solve one type of cubic equation. ... Tartaglia gave Fior a variety of different questions and Fior could not answer them. ... On the other hand inspiration came to Tartaglia and he was able to solve all of Fior questions.
Girolamo Cardan, Milanese governor, became aware of Tartaglia’s achievement and wrote him to ask if he could publish the formula in his upcoming book.
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Title: Tartaglia
Words: 700
Rating: None
Pages: 2.8
submitted by: honeydiva
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