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Niccolò Tartaglia

The life of Niccolò Tartaglia - The Stolen Secret of the Cubic Equation


Tartaglia's Formula

His own poem-version of the cubic solution.

\[ u - v = q, uv = (p/3)^3 \]

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

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