Lodovico Ferrari
| Lodovico de Ferrari | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 February 1522 Bologna |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Bologna |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Academic advisors | Gerolamo Cardano |
| Known for | Solving the quartic equations |
Lodovico de Ferrari (2 February 1522 – 5 October 1565) was an Italian mathematician.
Biography
Born in Bologna, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartolomeo Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna. Lodovico settled in Bologna, and he began his career as the servant of Gerolamo Cardano. He was extremely bright, so Cardano started teaching him mathematics. Ferrari aided Cardano on his solutions for quadratic equations and cubic equations, and was mainly responsible for the solution of quartic equations that Cardano published. While still in his teens, Ferrari was able to obtain a prestigious teaching post in Rome after Cardano resigned from it and recommended him. Ferrari retired when young at 42 years old, and wealthy.[1]:300 He then moved back to his home town of Bologna where he lived with his widowed sister Maddalena to take up a professorship of mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1565. Shortly thereafter, he died of white arsenic poisoning, according to a legend because of his sisters.[2]:18
Cardano–Tartaglia formula
In 1545 a famous dispute erupted between Ferrari and his contemporary Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, involving the solution to cubic equations. Widespread stories that Tartaglia devoted the rest of his life to ruining Ferrari's teacher and erstwhile master Cardano, however, appear to be fabricated.[3] Mathematical historians now credit both Cardano and Tartaglia with the formula to solve cubic equations, referring to it as the "Cardano–Tartaglia formula".
References
- ↑ Smith, D. E., History of Mathematics, Vol 1 (New York: Dover Publications, 1958), p. 300.
- ↑ Gindikin, S., Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists (A. Shuchat, Trans.). Springer; 2007. ISBN 978-0-387-48811-0. p. 18.
- ↑ Rothman, T., "Cardano v Tartaglia: The Great Feud Goes Supernatural".
Further reading
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
Media related to Lodovico Ferrari at Wikimedia Commons- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about an Italian mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
