Gerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21...
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Art, 1545) is an important Latin-language book on algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title Artis Magnae, Sive...
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Cubic equation (redirect from Cardano's formula)
persuaded by Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) to reveal his secret for solving cubic equations. In 1539, Tartaglia did so only on the condition that Cardano would...
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Cardano may refer to: Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian mathematician and physician Fazio Cardano (1444–1524), Italian jurist and mathematician, father...
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Cardano Foundation. The platform is named after Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, while the cryptocurrency itself is named after the English mathematician...
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originating from a habit of speaking to himself. Fazio Cardano was the father of Gerolamo Cardano. Payne, Robert (1978), Leonardo, Doubleday, p. 95, Probably...
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called by various eponymous names, as follows: Cardan joint, after Gerolamo Cardano, a polymath of the 16th century who contributed to knowledge of various...
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up cardan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cardan may refer to: Gerolamo Cardano or Jerome Cardan (1501–1576), Renaissance mathematician, physician...
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Look up Gerolamo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gerolamo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian...
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Lodovico Ferrari (section Cardano–Tartaglia formula)
career as the servant of Gerolamo Cardano. He was extremely bright, so Cardano started teaching him mathematics. Ferrari aided Cardano on his solutions for...
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after Italian mathematician and physicist Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) who described it in detail. However, Cardano did not invent the gimbal, nor did he...
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which there was good evidence. The sixteenth-century Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano demonstrated the efficacy of defining odds as the ratio of favourable...
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As early as 1517, the painting was starting to flake, and in 1532 Gerolamo Cardano described it as "blurred and colorless compared with what I remember...
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1572. The concept had appeared in print earlier, such as in work by Gerolamo Cardano. At the time, imaginary numbers and negative numbers were poorly understood...
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irreducibilis ("irreducible case"). This conundrum led Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano to conceive of complex numbers in around 1545 in his Ars Magna, though...
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great distance and in the other a smaller distance. The mathematician Gerolamo Cardano discusses the problem of the wheel in his 1570 Opus novum de proportionibus...
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contributing to the rationalization of the natural sciences. 16th century: Gerolamo Cardano solves the general cubic equation (by reducing them to the case with...
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accounting); Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (notable engineer and bookkeeper); Gerolamo Cardano (earliest founder of probability and binomial expansion); Robert Recorde...
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León in northwest-central Spain. Virgil, Pliny the Elder, Ambrose, Gerolamo Cardano, Caravaggio, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Stradivari, Cesare Beccaria...
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16th-century horoscope of archbishop John Hamilton, cast by Gerolamo Cardano, with lines resembling the fold lines of a paper fortune teller...
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forehead. Metoposcopy was developed by the 16th century Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano, considered to be one of the foremost mathematicians of the Renaissance...
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scientists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei and Gerolamo Cardano have been considered the most recognizable polymaths. During the Renaissance...
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in books including his Liber Abaci. In 1545, the Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano published his book Ars Magna, which covered many topics in algebra...
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number can be written as the sum to two primes." It was an epithet of Gerolamo Cardano that stuck: square roots of negative numbers are imaginary. The Argand...
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Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, who shared it with Gerolamo Cardano, asking him to not publish it. Cardano then extended this to numerous other cases, using...
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Liu Hui, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Gerolamo Cardano, Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Euler, Fourier, Gauss, Lobachevsky...
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universal joint (also called a Cardan joint), which was invented by Gerolamo Cardano in the 16th century. Universal joints are simple to produce and can...
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where he also called them numeri absurdi (absurd numbers). In 1545, Gerolamo Cardano, in his Ars Magna, provided the first satisfactory treatment of negative...
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vita propria, by the Italian mathematician, physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano (1574). One of the first autobiographies written in an Indian language...
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contrast between his philosophical teachings and his practice." In 1562 Gerolamo Cardano wrote an apology praising Nero in his Encomium Neronis, printed in...
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