Luca Pacioli

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Authored 'Summa de arithmetica', a comprehensive summary of mathematics in Renaissance Italy, which stated that a general solution to the cubic equation was impossible.

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How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented

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Authored 'Summa de arithmetica', a comprehensive summary of mathematics in Renaissance Italy, which stated that a general solution to the cubic equation was impossible.