Mathematical Treasure: Tartaglia’s Collected Works

Author(s):

Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University)

Niccolò Tartaglia (1500–1557) was the Italian mathematician famous for his work on solving cubic equations and for his dramatic life. A collection of his works on arithmetic was published in 1592 in two volumes.

Title page for the first volume of the collected arithmetic works by Tartaglia (1592).

A portrait of the author adorns the frontispiece.

Portrait of Tartaglia from the first volume of his collected arithmetic works.

The first page of text:

The first page of text in the first volume of the collected arithmetic works by Tartaglia.

A full digitization is available from Museo Galileo. Images from a 1578 French translation of Tartaglia’s book known in English as Treatise on Number and Measurement are also in Convergence.

Index to Mathematical Treasures

Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University), "Mathematical Treasure: Tartaglia’s Collected Works," Convergence (February 2023)

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