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Lodovico Ferrari (February 2, 1522 - October 5, 1565) was an Italian mathematician. Jump to: navigation, search February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 9 - Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI. February 26 - Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... Events March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ...


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 equation 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 after Cardano resigned from it and recommended him. Ferrari eventually retired young (only 42) and quite rich. He then moved back to his home town to take up a professorship of mathematics in 1565. Shortly thereafter, he died of white arsenic poisoning, allegedly murdered by his sister. Gerolamo Cardano or Jerome Cardan or Girolamo Cardan (September 24, 1501 - September 21, 1576) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and gambler. ... Graph of a quadratic function: y = x2 - x - 2 = (x+1)(x-2) The x-coordinates of the points where the graph crosses the x-axis, x = -1 and x = 2, are the roots of the quadratic equation: x2 - x - 2 = 0. ... Graph of a cubic polynomial: y = x3/5 + 4x2/5 - 7x/5 - 2 = 1/5 (x+5)(x+1)(x-2) In mathematics, a cubic equation is a polynomial equation in which the highest occurring power of the unknown is the third power. ... In mathematics, a quartic equation is the result of setting a quartic function equal to zero. ... Events March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. ... Jump to: navigation, search General Name, Symbol, Number arsenic, As, 33 Chemical series metalloids Group, Period, Block 15, 4, p Appearance metallic gray Atomic mass 74. ...


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He had a pupil named Lewis Ferrari, a young man of great genius, and an ardent student in the algebraic analysis; to him Cardan committed the solution of this difficult question, and he was not disappointed.
Ferrari not only resolved the question, but he also found a general method of resolving equations of the fourth degree, by making them depend on the solution of equations of the third degree.
This was another great improvement; and although the precise nature of an equation was not then fully understood, nor was it indeed until half a century later, yet, in the general resolution of equations, a point of progress was then reached which the utmost efforts of modern analysis have never been able to pass.
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