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.