Great Thinkers, Great Theorems

To the Cubic and Beyond (1x11)

Fecha de emisión: Ene 01, 2010

Trace Cardano's path to his greatest triumph: the solution to the cubic equation, widely considered impossible at the time. His protégé, Ludovico Ferrari, then solved the quartic equation. Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel later showed that no general solutions are possible for fifth- or higher-degree equations.