Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (born 1501)

Gerolamo Cardano

Italian Renaissance polymath (1501–1576)

Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and gambler. He became one of the most influential…