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Lodovico Ferrari

The life of Lodovico Ferrari - The Poisoned Prodigy Behind the Quartic Equation


Quartic Equation

He discovered the general solution for quartic equations.

\[ ax^4 + bx^3 + cx^2 + dx + e = 0 \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ferrari/

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