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Girolamo Cardano

lived from 1501 to 1576

Girolamo Cardan or Cardano was an Italian doctor and mathematician who is famed for his work Ars Magna which was the first Latin treatise devoted solely to algebra. In it he gave the methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equations which he had learnt from Tartaglia.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cardan/