Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian Renaissance polymath who lived from 1501 to 1576 and worked across mathematics, medicine, physics and philosophy, becoming one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. His 1545 book Ars Magna gave the first systematic use of negative numbers in European mathematics and published methods for solving cubic and quartic equations, and it also introduced binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem to Western mathematics. He made foundational contributions to probability theory and designed mechanical devices, including the gimbal and a shaft mechanism still used in vehicles today.
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1. Gerolamo Cardano, Wikipedia
Birth section, date
Cardano was born on 24 September 1501
Introduction, birth year
24 September 1501
Birth section, place
in Pavia, Lombardy, the illegitimate child of
Introduction, death date
21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath
Death section
until his death in 1576
Introduction, nationality
was an Italian polymath
Ars Magna section
In his 1545 book Ars Magna he made the first systematic use of negative numbers in Europe.
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