Radices Sophisticae, Racines Imaginaires: The Origins of Complex Numbers in the Late Renaissance

Veronica Gavagna ()
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Veronica Gavagna: University of Salerno, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Art of Science, 2014, pp 165-190 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to clarify what is meant by the “invention of complex numbers“ by the Renaissance Italian algebraists Girolamo Cardano and Rafael Bombelli.

Keywords: Geometric Construction; Cube Root; Unit Segment; Solution Formula; Modern Reader (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02111-9_7

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