Riley+Soto---Girolamo+Cardano

=//__** Girolamo Cardano **__//=

Girolamo Cardano was born on September 24, 1501 in Pavia, Italy. Before Cardano was born two events happened. The first one is that his mother, Chiara Micheria, has tried many times to abort him. The second one is that his three siblings had died from Plague. In 1570, Cardano was sent to jail because he had been charged with heresy. Six years later, on September 21, in Rome, Cardano had died.

__// Childhood: //__ Cardano had a shameful and an abusive childhood. At the age of 5, Cardano's father, Fazio Cardano made him carry increasing large loads of legal and medical books that his father needed when he was visiting his patrons. Also, he felt and was unwanted and unhonored by his family.

__// Education: //__ In 1520, Cardano had gone to the University of Pavia. Later, Cardano started studying medicine in Padua, which is a city and a commune, in Veneto, nothern Italy. 5 years later, in 1525, Cardano had attended the College of Physicians in Milan. When Cardano was at the College of Physicians he studied hypocycloids and researched tuberculosis, asthma, and ventral disease.

__// Career: //__ Cardano was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and a gambler. Also he was an accomplished chess player.

__// Achievements // : __ Cardano was the first mathematician to make systematic use of numbers less than zero and to describe typhoid fever. He also published the solutions to the cubic and quartic equations in his 1545 book, Ars Magna. His written 1526 book that wasn't published until 1663, Liber de ludo aleae was about games of chance. He also published two encyclopedias of natural science, which contains a wide variety of inventions, facts, and occult superstition. Lastly, before Cardano's death, in 1576, he completed his autobiography, De propria vita ( The Book of My Life ).

__// Jobs: //__ A little after college, Cardano was a physician in training. In 1543 Cardano became a professor.

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