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JOURNALS // Mathematical Education // Archive

Math. Ed., 2020 Issue 4(96), Pages 61–66 (Mi mo733)

From the history of mathematics

How to solve a third degree equation

B. L. Druzhinin

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics named by A.I. Alikhanov of National Research Centre «Kurchatov Institute»

Abstract: The article briefly outlines a method for solving third-degree equations in combination with a methodological technique that encourages students to find a solution. The solution is accompanied by excursions into the corresponding section of the history of mathematics.

Keywords: equation of the third degree, Del Ferro, Tartaglia, Cardano, Abel, Galois.

UDC: 512.622



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