Tartaglia
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 Euc...
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Tartaglia
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 i...
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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 ...
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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 i...
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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 ...
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Tartaglia
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Niccolo Tartaglia
Tartaglia (Nicolò Fontana)