Subject: Re: [HM] Hudde
From: Ivo Schneider (Ivo.Schneider@UniBw-Muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 13:17:00 EST
We started with the problem raised by James A. Landau:
> 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 learned a lot about Hudde who is obviously much younger than Cardan who
published his method of finding the roots of third-degree equations in his
Ars Magna from 1545.
The difference between Cardan and Hudde you might learn from the most
extensive description of Hudde's life and work available, which was
published by K. Haas in Centaurus 4, 1956 (in German).
Ivo Schneider
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