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Tartaglia Niccolň, originally Niccolň Fontana c.1500-57
Italian mathematician
Born in Brescia, he became a teacher of mathematics in several Italian universities, and settled in Florence in 1524. He was one of the first scholars to derive a general solution for cubic equations. He disclosed this result to Girolamo Cardano who fought Tartaglia for priority in the discovery, although the credit for the first solution of a cubic should probably go to Scipione da Ferro, an Italian mathematician of the previous generation. Tartaglia also published an early work on the theory of projectiles, and translated Euclid's Elements.
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