Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (died 1576)

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…