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G. Cardano

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Gerolamo Cardano a well-known mathematician, doctor, and astrologist was born in Pavia on September 24, 1501. The illegitimate son of a lawyer Facio Cardano. Gerolamo went to school in his hometown in Pavia until he moved to Padua where he became a Rector of the university. Here he attained a degree in medicine. In 1524 Cardano moved to Sacco where he married and gained the chair of mathematics at Academia Palatina. One decade later he lost this chair too Zuanne da Coi.

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In the year of 1535, right after Cardano lost his chair too Zuanne da Coi. Niccolo won a mathematical competition by defeating Antonio Maria Fior. This revolved around the problem of the cubic equation. On hearing this news Cardano invited Tartaglia to Milan. Tartaglia flatly refused, However Tartaglia did visit Cardano in 1539 and told him what he needed to know how to solve the cubic condition it would never be published.

In 1552 Cardano was hired to become a doctor at St.Andrews, the......


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