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Scipione del Ferro

1465 - 1526

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Scipione del Ferro (6 February 1465 – 5 November 1526) was an Italian mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scipione del Ferro has received more than 92,764 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Scipione del Ferro is the 152nd most popular mathematician (up from 190th in 2019), the 1,081st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,312th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Scipione del ferro is most famous for his discovery of the law of the lever. The law of the lever states that when two objects are in equilibrium, the force needed to move one object is equal to the force needed to move the other object.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Scipione del Ferro ranks 152 out of 1,004. Before him are Henri Lebesgue, Zoia Ceaușescu, Andrey Markov, Edward Norton Lorenz, Wang Chong, and Joseph Liouville. After him are Robert Grosseteste, Michel Rolle, Vladimir Arnold, Arthur Cayley, Menelaus of Alexandria, and Robert Aumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Scipione del Ferro ranks 3. Before him are Vittore Carpaccio, and Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar. After him are Kunigunde of Austria, Mehmed I Giray, Hans Holbein the Elder, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Gil Vicente, Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Bramantino, and Konrad Peutinger. Among people deceased in 1526, Scipione del Ferro ranks 6. Before him are Juan Sebastián Elcano, Louis II of Hungary, Vittore Carpaccio, Isabella of Austria, and Giovanni dalle Bande Nere. After him are Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, Ibrahim Lodi, Rodrigo de Triana, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Elisabetta Gonzaga, and Shō Shin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Scipione del Ferro ranks 1,081 out of 5,161. Before him are Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Maria Pia of Savoy (1847), Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943), Giovanni Battista Martini (1706), Antonio Caldara (1670), and Lars Porsena (-600). After him are Hiero I of Syracuse (-600), Marcus Claudius Marcellus (-42), Augustine of Canterbury (510), Benedetto Marcello (1686), Miuccia Prada (1949), and Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Scipione del Ferro ranks 15. Before him are Philolaus (-470), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Aloysius Lilius (1510), and Vincenzo Viviani (1622). After him are Giambattista della Porta (1535), Rafael Bombelli (1526), Vito Volterra (1860), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), and Paolo Ruffini (1765).

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