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Gerolamo Cardano

1501 - 1576

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Gerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He became one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance and one of the key figures in the foundation of probability; he introduced the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science.Cardano partially invented and described several mechanical devices, including the combination lock, the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft with universal joints, which allows the transmission of rotary motion at various angles and is used in vehicles to this day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerolamo Cardano has received more than 941,518 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Gerolamo Cardano is the 33rd most popular mathematician (up from 34th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Italy (down from 225th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian mathematician and physician who is most famous for his work on probability.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gerolamo Cardano ranks 33 out of 823Before him are Pope Sylvester II, Srinivasa Ramanujan, François Viète, John Napier, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and Georg Cantor. After him are George Boole, Kurt Gödel, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Ada Lovelace, Gottlob Frege, and Niels Henrik Abel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Gerolamo Cardano ranks 3Before him are Anne Boleyn and Pope Marcellus II. After him are Isabella of Austria, Garcilaso de la Vega, Queen Munjeong, Yi Hwang, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Sahib I Giray, Leonhart Fuchs, Bairam Khan, and Ivan Susanin. Among people deceased in 1576, Gerolamo Cardano ranks 2Before him is Titian. After him are Tahmasp I, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Aloysius Lilius, Hans Sachs, Isabella de' Medici, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Bálint Bakfark, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Bartolomé Carranza.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gerolamo Cardano ranks 227 out of 4,668Before him are Diodorus Siculus (-90), Cesare Lombroso (1835), Pope Clement X (1590), Pope Boniface V (575), Piero della Francesca (1415), and Pope Celestine V (1215). After him are Lucius Verus (130), Pope Lucius I (200), Giorgio Armani (1934), Ludovico Sforza (1452), Pope Pius I (90), and Pope Benedict XI (1240).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Gerolamo Cardano ranks 5Before him are Archimedes (-287), Fibonacci (1170), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), and Luca Pacioli (1445). After him are Archytas (-428), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Philolaus (-470), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).