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Babylonians show discovery of cubic equations but can only find solutions to certain ones.
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Hippocrates of Chios, Archytas, Menaechmus, and Archimedes all use cubic equations in work relating to doubling a cube and trisecting an angle.
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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art shows some methods for solving cubic equations.
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Wang Xiaotong is able to create and solve 25 cubic equations.
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Al-Mahani uses cubic equations working on Archimedian problem a dividing a sphere by a plane. Abu Ja'far Alchazin uses conic sections to solve cubic equations.
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Nicolo Tartaglia and Scipione del Ferro independently find general formula for solving cubic equations.
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Tartaglia and Antonio Maria del Fiore use partial solutions of cubic equations in public mathematical challenge.
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Gerolano Cardano breaks his promise to Tartaglia and publishes formula for solving cubic equations. However, he does mention Tartaglia but gives credit to del Ferro.
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Rafael Bombelli develops further the extraction of complex roots for cubic equations.
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Peter Roth claims but does not prove that algebraic equations have as many roots as their degree.
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Francois Viete finds trigonometrical solutions to cubic equations.
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Wallis extracts cube root of a binomial. Work based on Cardano although he claimed no knowledge of such.
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Alexis Clairaut and Jean le Rond d'Alembert show that Ferro's (Cardano's) Formula gives three roots not just one.
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Lagrange finds solutions to cubic equations using method of combinations.