Niccolo
Tartalia
1499 (Brescia) - 1557 (Venice)
Girolamo Cardano
1501 (Pavia) - 1576 (Rome)
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The Cardano Formula
The solutions of the equation X3+pX+q = 0
are of the form
| In the special case p = - 4, q = 1:
Note: We need the square root of the
negative number - 687
(in Maple written as I times root of 687).
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