Girolamo Cardano

5 facts about Cardano's work

• Cardano was the first mathematician to make use of negative numbers
• Cardano demonstrated that the probability of an event is based on the ratio of favorable outcomes to the number of all possible outcomes.

5 facts about Cardano's work

• Cardano was the first to describe typhoid fever, which is a disease caused when Salmonella Typhi, a type of bacteria, is growing in either the intestines or blood.
• At one point, Cardano took notice of imaginary numbers(complex number), which he did understand. In 1572, Rafael Bombelli set the rules for complex numbers.

Girolamo Cardano

• Cardano also introduced in one of his books, Opus novum de proportionibus, binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem. Binomial coefficients are family of positive integers that occur as coefficients in the binomial theorem...

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• and the binomial theorem describes the algebraic expansion of exponentiation of binomial; a binomial is a polynomial(an expression consisting of variables and coefficients that involves all operations except division and negative integer exponents) which is the sum of two terms.

5 facts about Cardano's life

• Cardano was born on September 24, 1501 in Pavia, Lombardy, which is in Italy, and died on September 21, 1576.
• Cardano was illegitimately born.

5 facts about Cardano's life

• Cardano's went to study medicine at the University of Pavia, in 1520, and 5 years later, he many times applied to the College of Physicians in Milan but was denied because of his bad reputation and illegitimate birth. Eventually, in 1539, Cardano was admitted into the College of Physicians.

5 facts about Cardano's life

• As a gambler, Cardano used probability to win most of the games he played.
• At one time, Cardano gained the reputation of the greatest physician in the world.