Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (born 1499)

Nicolo Tartaglia

Italian mathematician (1499–1557)

Nicolo, known as Tartaglia, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, a surveyor and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice. He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and an acclaimed compilation of mathematics. Tartaglia…