Gerolamo Cardano
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.
Gerolamo Cardano | |
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 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 |
References
eedit- ↑ 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.