Quando che’l cubo

Kellie O. Gutman ()

The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2005, vol. 27, issue 1, No 5, 32-36

Abstract: Abstract in the history of mathematics, the story of the solution to the cubic equation is as convoluted as it is significant. When I first read an account of it in William Dunham’s Journey Through Genius1 in 2000, I was captivated by the personalities, the intrigues, and the controversies that were part of mathematics in sixteenth-century Italy. For those unfamiliar with it, the story runs as follows:

Keywords: Real Root; Mathematical Intelligencer; Negative Number; Cube Root; Complex Cube (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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