Mathematician:Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

1499/1500 - 1557

Italian mathematician, engineer and surveyor.


 * Published first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid.
 * Devised a solution to the general cubic equation independently of Scipione del Ferro, later published by Cardano and now known as Cardan's Formula.

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.

Books and Papers

 * Translation into Italian of Euclid's "Elements" (1543).