Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano
	Gerolamo Cardano
Born	24 September 1501; Pavia
Dee'd	21 September 1576 (aged 74); Roum
Naitionality	Italian
Alma mater	Varsity o Pavia
Kent for	Algebra
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics; Medicine

Gerolamo (or Girolamo, or Geronimo) Cardano (French: Jérôme Cardan; Laitin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576) wis an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physeecian, astrologer an gambler.^[1] He wrote mair nor 200 wirks on medicine, mathematics, pheesics, filosofie, releegion, an muisic.^[2] His gambling led him tae formulate elementary rules in probability, makin him ane o the foonders o the field.

References

↑ Fletcher, Peter; Hughes Hoyle; C. Wayne Patty (1991). Foundations of Discrete Mathematics (International student ed.). Boston: PWS-KENT Pub. Co. p. 207. ISBN 0-53492-373-9. Cardano was a physician, astrologer, and mathematician.... [He] supported his wife and three children by gambling and casting horoscopes.
↑ Westfall, Richard S. "Cardano, Girolamo". The Galileo Project. rice.edu. Archived frae the original on 19 Julie 2012. Retrieved 19 Julie 2012.

[1] Fletcher, Peter; Hughes Hoyle; C. Wayne Patty (1991). Foundations of Discrete Mathematics (International student ed.). Boston: PWS-KENT Pub. Co. p. 207. ISBN 0-53492-373-9. Cardano was a physician, astrologer, and mathematician.... [He] supported his wife and three children by gambling and casting horoscopes.

[Westfall-2] Westfall, Richard S. "Cardano, Girolamo". The Galileo Project. rice.edu. Archived frae the original on 19 Julie 2012. Retrieved 19 Julie 2012.

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