Del Ferro, Scipione

Del Ferro, Scipione

 

Born 1465 in Bologna; died 1526 near Bologna. Italian mathematician.

Del Ferro became a professor at the University of Bologna in 1496. He discovered a method of solving cubic equations of the form x3 + px = q in terms of radicals.

REFERENCE

Struik, D. J. Kratkii ocherk istorii matematiki, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1969. (Translated from German.)