Gerolamo Cardano - Wikipedia
WEBGerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo [1] or Geronimo; [2] French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer ...
Girolamo Cardano (1501 - 1576) - Biography - MacTutor History …
WEBSep 24, 2011 — Girolamo Cardan or Cardano was an Italian doctor and mathematician who is famed for his work Ars Magna which was the first Latin treatise devoted solely to algebra. In it he gave the methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equations which he had learnt from Tartaglia. View nine larger pictures.
Girolamo [Geronimo] Cardano - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBApr 23, 2013 — In addition to being one of the most original and talented physicians, mathematicians and astrologers of his time, Girolamo Cardano (b. 1501, Pavia, d. 1576, Rome) occupies an important place in the history of Renaissance philosophy.
Girolamo Cardano | Renaissance, Astrology & Algebra | Britannica
WEBSep 20, 2024 — Girolamo Cardano was an Italian physician, mathematician, and astrologer who gave the first clinical description of typhus fever and whose book Ars magna (The Great Art; or, The Rules of Algebra) is one of the cornerstones in the history of algebra.
Optimism and the Inquisition: The Extraordinary Life of Girolamo Cardano
WEBMar 3, 2020 — Girolamo Cardano was a 16th-century physician, mathematician, philosopher, scientist, encyclopedist, and inventor. During his life, he was beaten, imprisoned, survived a plague, suffered...
A Mathematical Duel in 16th Century Venice (Excerpt) - History News …
WEBMay 17, 2020 — Gerolamo Cardano was a physician, gifted scholar, and notorious gambler who would not hesitate to use flattery and even trickery to learn Tartaglia’s secret.
Girolamo Cardano - Renaissance and Reformation - Oxford …
WEBFeb 28, 2017 — A more complex image of Cardano has now been emerging, thanks to recent editions and translations of his works. Cardano sensed the crisis of the humanistic tradition in the age of the Counter-Reformation.
Gerolamo Cardano — University of Bologna
WEBGerolamo Cardano. Humanist, physician, mathematician, astrologer, professor of medicine (Pavia 1501 – Rome 1576). In his autobiography, Cardano wrote of himself “I am not very respectful and do not mince words”. His life-long, unmitigated frankness often drew accusations from and resulted in clashes with his colleagues, students and even ...
Gerolamo Cardano - Utah State University
WEBGerolamo Cardano (1501-1576) Gerolamo Cardano's mother already had three sons before Gerolamo was born and did not want another. At three months old, he, along with his three half-brothers and nurse, came down with the bubonic plague. Gerolamo was the only one of the five to survive.
Algebra - Cardano, Cubic, Quartic | Britannica
WEBSep 10, 2024 — Girolamo Cardano was a famous Italian physician, an avid gambler, and a prolific writer with a lifelong interest in mathematics. His widely read Ars Magna (1545; “Great Work”) contains the Renaissance era’s most systematic and comprehensive account of solving cubic and quartic equations.