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Professional Code Breakers of Renaissance Venice
- coldcode 7y agoThat era also had competitive equation solving, i.e. math contests.
- bgilroy26 7y agoMath contests feature prominently in the Cardano-Tartaglia dispute, an important chapter in the history of the discovery of the cubic equation. http://brain.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/Cardano-Tartaglia_Dispute.pdf http://brain.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/Cardano-Tartaglia_Dis...
- Tomte 7y agoI was so sure that the article would be by Ioanna Iordanou, but it isn't. She is about to publish a book about this: Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance Amazon says it will be out in October. https://www.amazon.de/Venices-Secret-Service-Intelligence-Renaissance/dp/0198791313/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=Iordanou&qid=1568388497&sr=8-2 https://www.amazon.de/Venices-Secret-Service-Intelligence-Re...