Subject: Re: [HM] Hudde
From: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis@otenet.gr)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 18:21:00 EST
James A. Landau quoted Lagrange:
> 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..."
and asked:
>Who is Hudde?
I guess it is: Johann van Waveren Hudde (1608-1704).
In his Biography at St. Andrews archive:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Hudde.html
we read:
<quote>
Hudde worked on maxima and minima and the theory of equations. Hudde
gave an ingenious method to find multiple roots of an equation which is
essentially the modern method of finding the highest common factor of a
polynomial and its derivative.
</quote>
Antreas
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