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
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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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