Spring 2015 MTCA Workshop #3

Post date: Mar 31, 2015 12:27:12 AM

Cardano and the Cubic

Presented by

Dr. Frank Sottile

of

Texas A&M University

Thursday, March 26

NOA 1.102

We all know the quadratic formula for the solutions to a quadratic equation. Did you know is that there is a formula for the solutions

to a cubic equation (and also for a quartic equation), due to the Italian mathematicans Tartaglia, Cardano, and Ferraro? In this session,

we saw how to solve the cubic equation and learned some history behind the discovery of the solution.