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On this day in 1697, Isaac Newton received Johann Bernoulli's brachistochrone problem. According to Newton's biographer Conduitt, he solved the problem in an evening after returning home from the Royal Mint. Newton:
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Our Mathematician of the Day is Girolamo Cardano an Italian 🇮🇹 doctor and mathematician famed for his work Ars Magna the first Latin treatise devoted solely to algebra. In it he gave the methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equations.
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