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Also Known As Scipione Dal Ferro • Scipione del Ferro
Born 1465 • Bologna • Italy
Died 1526 (aged 61) • Bologna • Italy
Subjects Of Study cubic equation
Cardano, Girolamo
Girolamo Cardano
Italian physician and mathematician
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Italian mathematician
Wang Xiaotong
Chinese mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Fibonacci
Italian mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Paolo Ruffini
Italian mathematician
Giovanni Ceva
Italian mathematician and engineer
Peano, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Peano
Italian mathematician
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
Cavalieri, Bonaventura
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician
Maria Gaetana Agnesi.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Italian mathematician
Enrico Betti
Italian mathematician
Luigi Cremona
Italian mathematician
Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
Lodovico Ferrari
Italian mathematician

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