Mathematician:Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Mathematician
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

Publications

 * 1543: Translation into Italian of
 * 1546: ("Questions, and Various Inventions")
 * 1556: ("General Treatise on Number and Measure")

Also known as
Appears variously on the title pages of his works:
 * Nicolo Tartaglia

Some sources give his first name as Nicola.