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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, music theorist, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerolamo Cardano has received more than 1,006,569 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Gerolamo Cardano is the 32nd most popular mathematician (up from 33rd in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Italy (up from 226th 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 32 out of 1,004. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Évariste Galois, Apollonius of Perga, John Napier, François Viète, and Diophantus. After him are Georg Cantor, Ada Lovelace, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Kurt Gödel, and Johann Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gerolamo Cardano ranks 217 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Celestine I (400), Antonio Salieri (1750), Pope Urban III (1200), Pope Gregory VIII (1100), Pope Benedict XIV (1675), and Pope Martin V (1369). After him are Pope Clement XIII (1693), Suetonius (70), Agnes of Rome (291), Otho (32), Pope Eugene IV (1383), and Pope Marcellus II (1501).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

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

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