Note 837 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
Ibid. p. 145. Tartaglia boasts of having discovered that the cube of p + q = p3 + p2 q + p q2 + q3. Such was the ignorance of literal algebra; yet in this state of the science he solved cubic equations.
Reading edition
Ibid. p. 145. Tartaglia boasts of having discovered that the cube of p + q = p3 + p2 q + p q2 + q3. Such was the ignorance of literal algebra; yet in this state of the science he solved cubic equations.