Mathematician:Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Italian mathematician, engineer and surveyor.
 * Published first Italian translations of and.
 * Devised a solution to the general cubic equation independently of, later published by and now known as Cardano's Formula.
 * Challenged in 1535 by to a public contest to solve cubics, and won convincingly.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: 1499 or 1500
 * 1512: Suffered a war injury to his face resulting in an inability to speak clearly, which earned him the nickname "Tartaglia" ("Stammerer").
 * Died: December 13, 1557

Theorems

 * Tartaglia's Formula for the volume of any irregular tetrahedron.
 * Tartaglia's Triangle, also known as Pascal's Triangle.
 * Tartaglia's Poem

Books and Papers

 * Translation into Italian of (1543).

Also see

 * : Introduction
 * : Chapter $4$: Lure of the Unknown