From Cardano's great art to Lagrange's reflections. Filling a gap in the history of algebra

DOI10.4171/092MaRDI QIDQ633239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacqueline Stedall

Publication date 31 March 2011

Published in Heritage of European Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/092

zbMATH Keywords

GregoryEulerLagrangeNewtonCauchyLeibnizDescartesCardanoequation theoryHarriotMaclaurinRuffiniTschirnhausVièteBézout

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) Equations in general fields (12E12) History of field theory (12-03)

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