Gerolamo Cardano
Girolamo Cardano
17th-century portrait engraving of Cardano
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an Italian polymath He was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world
Born
24 September 1501 Pavia
Died
21 September 1576 (aged 74) ( O. S. ) Rome
Nationality
Italian
Known for
Cardano–Tartaglia formula First systematic use of negative numbers in Europe
Fields
Science, mathematics, philosophy, and literature
Alma mater
University of Pavia
adultbasic
Italy
era
1400-1600
Influenced
Blaise Pascal, François Viète, Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Carl Friedrich Gauss
Influences
Archimedes, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Leonardo Fibonacci
Notable students
Lodovico Ferrari