Definition:Quartic Equation/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Quartic Equation
The solution of the quartic equation followed soon after the solution of the cubic.
It was included in Gerolamo Cardano's Artis Magnae, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis of $1545$, along with his solution of the cubic, which had been solved some few decades earlier by Scipione del Ferro.
It was solved by Lodovico Ferrari, who was a student of Cardano's.
Sources
- 2004: Ian Stewart: Galois Theory (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Historical Introduction: Polynomial Equations