NICCOLÒ FONTANA TARTAGLIA

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia created a formula to solve cubic equations. He also invented a way to find the square root of a negative number.

BACKGROUND

• Born - Brescia Italy in 1500
• Spent all their life In Italy
• He went to Padua
• Taught himself how to do math at a young age
• He had 1 sister and 2 brothers
• His dad was a deliver but he got murdered doing his job
• Was married
• Was poor for all of his life
• Got wounded on his face
• Went to a tutor but did not have money to pay for consistent visits

AREA OF GREATNES.S

• Created formula to solve cubic equations
• Engineer
• Formula for square root of negative number
• Self taught
• Went to a good school

AREA OF GREATNESS EXAMPLE

SETBACKS

• Dad died
• Only boy in the family
• Poor
• Didn't go to a good school

When the cube and the things together
Are equal to some discrete number, 1
Find two other numbers differing in this one.
Then you will keep this as a habit
That their product shall always be equal
Exactly to the cube of a third of the things. 2
The remainder then as a general rule
Of their cube roots subtracted
Will be equal to your principal thing.

3
1 [Solve x3 + cx = d]
2 [Find u, v such that u - v = d and uv = (c/3)3 ]
3 [Then x = 3√u - 3√v ]
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INTERPERTATION OF QUOTE

AWARDS AND HONORS

• TARTAGLIA WON AGAINST FIOR IN A MATH CONTEST
• ALTHOUGH HE WON HE DID NOT ACCEPT THE REWARD

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