[HM] Hudde


Subject: [HM] Hudde
From: James A. Landau (JJJRLandau@aol.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 15:13:46 EST


_Lectures on Elementary Mathematics_ by Joseph Louis Lagrange

English translation by Thomas J. McCormack, Chicago: Open Court Publishing
Company, 1898, available on-line at

     URL http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/dienst-data/cdl-math-browse.html

page 82

<quote>

The method [for finding roots of third-degree equations]...which is commonly
called _Cardan's method_, although it seems to me that we owe it to Hudde..."

<\quote>

Who is Hudde?

--James A. Landau



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