The Unattainable Attempt to Avoid the Casus Irreducibilis for Cubic Equations Gerolamo Cardano's De Regula Aliza /

Sara Confalonieri presents an overview of Cardano’s mathematical treatises and, in particular, discusses the writings that deal with cubic equations. The author gives an insight into the latest of Cardano’s algebraic works, the De Regula Aliza (1570), which displays the attempts to overcome the diff...

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Main Author: Confalonieri, Sara (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Spektrum, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Inter-Dependencies Between the Families of Cubic Equations in the Ars Magna
  • Ars Magna, Chapters XI-XXIII and the Casus Irreducibilis
  • Getting Acquainted with the De Regula Aliza
  • The Method of the Splittings in Aliza, Chapter I.