(1499 Brescia, IT – 13. 12. 1557 Venezia, IT)
Italian mathematician, engineer, and surveyor
Teacher of mathematics in Verona and Venice
Solved thirty cases of the cubic equation
Credit, Wikipedia. Availeble online http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Fontana_Tartaglia
The MacTutor History of Mathematics.
Available online http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Tartaglia.html