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Scipione del Ferro (Bologna, 6 February 1465 - Bologna, 5 November 1526) was an Italian mathematician. He is believed to have discovered for the first time a method for solving the depressed third-degree equations of type x + ax = b about the year 1515 and kept it secretly. Later, the Italian mathematician Niccolò Fontana, nicknamed Tartaglia, studied this same type of equations and also solved them, although he was able to access the knowledge about the subject that created and kept Del Ferro, which revealed to his pupil Antonio Maria Fior, a mediocre mathematician.

It is known that another Italian mathematician, Gerolamo Cardano, when he learned of these discoveries he published them, earning the enmity of Tartaglia. But it should be borne in mind that Cardano was not the discoverer or creator of the solutory formula of a cubic equation that bears his name, obtained the solution of Tartaglia, under oath of not publishing it. Nevertheless, public in 1545, year of great impact in the algebristas, that usually is considered like the beginning of the modern period of the mathematics.

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