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Lodovico Ferrari
Italian mathematician (1522–1565)
Lodovico de Ferrari (2 February 1522 – 5 October 1565) was an Italianmathematician best known today for solving the biquadratic equation.
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Biography
Born in Bologna, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartolomeo Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna. Lodovico settled in Bologna, and he began his career as the servant of Gerolamo Cardano. He was extremely bright, so Cardano started teaching him mathematics.
Ferrari aided Cardano on his solutions for biquadratic equations and cubic equations, and was mainly responsible for the solution of biquadratic equations that Cardano published. While still in his teens, Ferrari was able to obtain a prestigious teaching post in Rome after Cardano resigned from it and recommended him.
Ferrari retired when young at 42 years old, and wealthy.[1]: 300 He then moved back to his home town of Bologna where he lived with his widowed sister Maddalena to take up a