Girolamo Cardano
1501-1576
Italian Mathematician
Amathematician and physician, Girolamo or Geronimo Cardano lived a turbulent personal and professional life, and became embroiled in a conflict over cu...
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Girolamo Cardano
1501-1576
Italian mathematician and physicist whose work Ars magna (1545) contained Cardano's rule for solving reduced cubic equations and Tartaglia's method, obtained u...
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The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physician Geronimo Cardano (1501-1576) initiated the general theory of cubic and quartic equations. He emphasized the need for both negative and complex numb...
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It would be incomplete to simply list Girolamo Cardano as an Italian physician and mathematician. To reflect the true character of his life, one would have to add that he was the illegitimate son of a...
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Cardano was the son of a lawyer of great learning who was also a friend of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The young Cardano was sickly from birth, and was treated poorly by his father, but he was extr...
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Girolamo Cardano
Geronimo Cardano
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Girolamo Cardano