Mathematician:Lodovico Ferrari

Lodovico (or Ludovico Ferrari) was an 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

 * 2nd February 1522: Born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy)
 * 30th November 1536: Went to work for Gerolamo Cardano, and became his student of mathematics
 * 1540: Discovered solution of the quartic equation
 * 1541: Became a public lecturer in geometry
 * 10th August 1548: Defeated Tartaglia in a public algebra contest
 * 1565: Called to a professorship in the University of Bologna
 * 5th October 1565: Died in Bologna (supposedly murdered by his sister Maddalena by arsenic).

Theorems

 * Ferrari's Method for solving the quartic.

Books and Papers

 * Collaborated with Gerolamo Cardano on his Ars Magna

Also see

 * : Introduction