Lodovico Ferrari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
About Lodovico Ferrari
- Lodovico de Ferrari (2 February 1522 – 5 October 1565) was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, Italy, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartolomeo de Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna.
- Lodovico settled in Bologna, Italy, 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 quadratic equations and cubic equations, and was mainly responsible for the solution of quartic 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.
- He then moved back to his home town of Bologna where he lived with his widowed sister Maddalena to take up a professorship of mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1565.
- Shortly thereafter, he died of white arsenic poisoning, according to a legend because of his sisters.
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