Rafael Bombelli
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Italian mathematician
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- Bachelors Mathematics University of Bologna
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Why Is Rafael Bombelli Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rafael Bombelli was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, he is the author of a treatise on algebra and is a central figure in the understanding of imaginary numbers. He was the one who finally managed to address the problem with imaginary numbers. In his 1572 book, L'Algebra, Bombelli solved equations using the method of del Ferro/Tartaglia. He introduced the rhetoric that preceded the representative symbols +i and -i and described how they both worked.
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