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WorksheetsNICCOLò TARTAGLIA, GEROLAMO CARDANO & LODOVICO FERRARI
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What was Niccolò Tartaglia known for?
Designing cathedrals
Writing poetry
Solving cubic equations
Being a famous painter
In which year did Tartaglia win the Bologna University mathematics competition?
1530
1535
1540
1550
What does the name 'Tartaglia' mean?
The engineer
The mathematician
The stammerer
The genius
Who published Tartaglia's solution to cubic equations in 1545?
Lodovico Ferrari
Scipione del Ferro
Gerolamo Cardano
Rafael Bombelli
What type of equations did Lodovico Ferrari solve using Tartaglia's method?
Linear equations
Quadratic equations
Cubic equations
Quartic equations
What is the name of the formula for the volume of a tetrahedron devised by Tartaglia?
Tartaglia's Principle
Tartaglia's Equation
Tartaglia's Formula
Tartaglia's Theorem
What did Gerolamo Cardano write about at the age of 25?
Renaissance art
The history of mathematics
Games of chance
Cubic equations
What did Cardano's book 'Liber de ludo aleae' discuss?
The life of Tartaglia
The art of chess
The systematic treatment of probability
The history of gambling
What are Cardano Circles used to generate?
Hyperbolas
Parabolas
Hypocycloids
Ellipses
Who was accused of heresy after publishing a horoscope of Jesus?
Niccolò Tartaglia
Gerolamo Cardano
Lodovico Ferrari
Rafael Bombelli
What did Tartaglia encode his solution to cubic equations in?
A manuscript
A book
A poem
A letter
What was Tartaglia's profession before becoming a mathematician?
A teacher
A doctor
An engineer
A philosopher
What did Tartaglia contribute to the study of cannonball trajectories?
The first mathematical model
The first translation of Euclid's Elements
The concept of imaginary numbers
The theory of relativity
What was the outcome of Tartaglia's public debate with Ferrari?
They agreed to collaborate
It was inconclusive
Ferrari won by default
Tartaglia won
