Mathematician:Lodovico Ferrari

1522 - 1565

Italian mathematician.


 * Student of Gerolamo Cardano.
 * First one to devise a solution to the general quartic equation, which was later published by Cardano and is now known as Ferrari's Method.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: February 2, 1522
 * Died: October 5, 1565 (supposedly murdered by his sister by arsenic).

Theorems

 * Ferrari's Method for solving the quartic.

Books and Papers

 * None known.