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In his Artis magnæ, sive de regvlis algebraicis (a title usually shortened to Ars magna) of 1545, Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576) set out to split the number 10 into the sum of two numbers whose product is 40.
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González-Velasco, E.A. (2011). Complex Numbers. In: Journey through Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92154-9_3
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