Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano)

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The Ars Magna (Latin: "Great Work") is an important book on mathematics written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545.

The book contains the first published solution to cubic equations and the first explicit calculation with complex numbers. Cardano uses the complex numbers to derive real-number roots from cubic equation.

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