Gerolamo cardano biography of mahatma


Girolamo cardano (1501 - 1576) - biography - mactutor history...

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Born
24 September
Pavia, Duchy of Milan (now Italy)
Died
21 September
Rome (now Italy)
Summary
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.

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    • In it he gave the methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equations which he had learnt from Tartaglia.

    Biography

    Girolamo or Hieronimo Cardano's name was Hieronymus Cardanus in Latin and he is sometimes known by the English version of his name Jerome Cardan.



    Girolamo Cardano was the illegitimate child of Fazio Cardano and Chiara Micheria. His father was a lawyer in Milan but his expertise in mathematics was such that he was consulted by Leonardo da Vinci on questions of geometry.

    In addition to his law practice, Fazio lectured on geometry, both at the University of Pavia and, for a longer spell, at the Piatti foundation in Milan. When he was in his fifties, Fazio met Chiara Mi