Fermat's Last Theorem

In today's blog, I provide the proof for the solution of the general quartic equation. If you would like to see how Lodovico Ferrari f...

In today's blog, I go through Lodovico Ferrari's solution of the general quartic equation. In my next blog, I will present a proof...

Rafael Bombelli was the first to propose the idea of complex numbers. Bombelli wrote about imaginary numbers in his very influential book A...

Rafael Bombelli was born in 1526 in Bologna. His father, Antonio Mazzoli, changed his name to Bombelli in order to avoid the reputation of ...

Girolamo Cardano was able to find a general solution to the cubic equation based on Nicolo Fontana Tartaglia 's solution to the depress...

In today's blog, I will show a proof of the solution to the depressed cubic equation . Using Girolamo Cardano's trick (next blog), i...

Scipione del Ferro's great discovery which eventually led to the general solution of the cubic equation was the solution of the depress...

Nicolo Fontana "Tartaglia" was born around 1500 in Venice. His father was a "mail rider", a person who would ride from ...

Scipione del Ferro was the first mathematician to find a solution to the depressed cubic equation which is the equation of the form: ax 3 +...

An equation is said to be solvable by radicals if its solution can be achieved in a finite number of steps using the standard operations of ...

Lodovico Ferrari was born on February 2, 1522. His father died when he was very young so he lived with his uncle Vincent Ferrari. The math...

Girolamo Cardano's father Fazio Cardano, a lawyer by profession, had a deep interest in mathematics. He had developed a reputation as a...

Unfortunately, there are many details missing from our knowledge about Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. He was born around 780...