alleryStart learning →Who found a method for x³ + mx = n in the early 16th century?
ARafael Bombelli
BScipione del Ferro
CLeonardo of Pisa
DFrançois Viète
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Scipione del Ferro
Del Ferro solved this class of cubics first, before Tartaglia and Cardano.
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