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.
Born 24 September 1501, Pavia, Duchy of Milan (now Italy). Died 21 September 1576, Rome (now Italy).
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