Early life and education. Girolamo Cardano was born in Pavia in 1501 from Fazio and Chiara Micheri. Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano (English Jerome Cardan, Latin Hieronymus Cardanus; September 24, 1501 - September 21 1576) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler.. As he was an illegitimate child, he could not enter the college of physicians. Girolamo or Hieronimo Cardano's name was Hieronymus Cardanus in Latin and he is sometimes known by the English version of his name Jerome Cardan. Girolamo Cardano, Girolamo also spelled Gerolamo, English Jerome Cardan, (born September 24, 1501, Pavia, duchy of Milan [Italy]—died September 21, 1576, Rome), Italian physician, mathematician, and astrologer who gave the first clinical description of typhus fever and whose book Ars magna (The Great Art; or, The Rules of Algebra) is one of the cornerstones in the history of algebra. Chiara delivered her baby in Pavia, in the house of family friends, and not in Milan, to defuse a possible scandal concerning the illegitimate birth. Starting his education at home, he was later sent to the University of Padua, where he studied literature, philosophy, medicine, anatomy, mathematics and astronomy. Despite this he was a relatively successful physician. He was born in Pavia, Italy, the illegitimate child of a mathematically gifted lawyer who was a friend of Leonardo da Vinci.In his autobiography, Cardano claimed that his mother had attempted to abort him. Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, philosopher and gambler.He wrote more than 200 works on medicine, mathematics, physics, philosophy, religion, and music.His gambling led him to formulate elementary rules in probability, making him one of the founders of the field. 1.
Gerolamo Cardano or Jerome Cardan (September 24, 1501 - September 21 1576) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and gambler.. Life and Philosophical Works. Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano (English Jerome Cardan, Latin Hieronymus Cardanus; September 24, 1501 - September 21 1576) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler.. As he was an illegitimate child, he could not enter the college of physicians. His father was a lawyer in Milan but his expertise in mathematics was such that he was consulted by Leonardo da Vinci on questions of geometry. Despite this he was a relatively successful physician.
Girolamo Cardano was the illegitimate child of Fazio Cardano and Chiara Micheria. Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, astronomer, and geologist born in the late fifteenth century into a distinguished Venetian family.