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Name: Niccolo Tartaglia
Birth Date: 1500
Death Date: December 13, 1557
Place of Birth: Brescia, Italy
Place of Death: Venice, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: mathematician

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Biography of Tartaglia (Nicolò Fontana)
958 words, approx. 3 pages
Tartagliawas a self-taught mathematician whose work in algebra led to the first generalized solution of cubic equations. He was neither prominent nor well connected and spent most of his life earning a meager salary as a school teacher. In addition to...
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Biography of Niccolo Tartaglia
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The Italian mathematician Niccolo Tartaglia (1500-1557) was the first person to apply mathematics to the solution of artillery problems. Niccolo Tartaglia, born Niccolo Fontana in Brescia, was raised in poverty by his mother. His father was killed in...
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Biography of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
368 words, approx. 1 pages
Born at Brescia, Lombardy, Tartaglia was brought up in poverty and was largely self-educated. At the age of twelve, he received a saber cut on his face when French soldiers invaded the town. Although his mother nursed him back to health, the wound left...


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Tartaglia Summary
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1499-1557 Italian Mathematician Tartaglia, whose given name was Nicolò Fontana, is remembered for a number of achievements in applied mathematics, as well as for his translations of Euclid (c. 325-c. 250 B.C.) and Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.) His...
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Tartaglia Summary
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1499-1557 Italian mathematician, born Nicolò Fontana, whose La nuova scientia (1537) was the first book in history on the science of ballistics. The latter had come to be increasingly important to military forces armed with guns and cannons, and...
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Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499/1500, Brescia, Italy – December 13, 1557, Venice, Italy) was a mathematician, an engineer (designing fortifications), a surveyor (of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense) and a bookkeeper from...


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Interior Design
Angelo Tartaglia.
09/01/1994: 80 words, approx. 1 pages
Two opposing theories dominate the design of retail interiors. One dictates grabbing the shopper through design, making a space that's as theatrical--or as entertaining--as possible. The alternative suggests beckoning the shopper with the merchandise, designing a space that's deferential to its different types...
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National Dragster
PROfile: Steve Tartaglia
03/17/2006: 808 words, approx. 3 pages
Workaholic Steve Tartaglia got a dream job last year, but it wasn't his dream job. Tartaglia, the proverbial "guy back at the shop," first for the vaunted Vance & Hines operation and then for Don Schumacher's U.S. Army Pro Stock Motorcycle team, was...
 


 

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