Who Was Giolamo Cardano: The Father Of The Physino?

WHO WAS GIROLAMO CARDANO?
Girolamo Cardano was an Italian Physician and Mathematician during the sixteenth-century or Renaissance Era. He is known as well as Jerome Cardan in English and the “Father of the Probability”. He was born on September 24, 1501 in Pavia, Italy and died on September 21, 1576 in Rome, Italy. He was the son of Facio Cardano and Chiara Micheria. His father was a lawyer in Milan, who had a taste for mathematics, and a close friend of Leonardo da Vinci. His childhood was depressing. His mother tried several times to abort him and his father didn’t live with them until he was seven years old. At first, Cardano became his father’s assistant but as the years passed he began to think to study a career which can involve mathematics.
Another event that affect Cardano’s life is the Italian War (1521-1526), where he was force to leave the University of Pavia and finished his studies in the University of Padua. The third event was the Roman Inquisition which affected him towards the end of his life, as an elderly man. He was a Roman Catholic and was very supportive by his church. However, during this time the compute the horoscope of Jesus Christ, which was considered to be blasphemy. Because of this, the Inquisition arrested him for several months. Also, Girolamo Cardano was born during the European Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, which demonstrate his work had a combination of the two of
Also, he is known for his contributions in physics, including the projectile trajectories are parabolas, and the first to note the impossibility of perpetual motion machines. However, his is most remembers for his contributions and achievements in mathematics. He had contributed on probability, hydrodynamics, mechanics, geology, and algebra. At that time, Cardano heard about Tartagalia’s discovery of the depressed cubic, and he insist to him to give him the solution so he could include it on his published books. Finally, Tartaglia revealed the secret to Cardano in 1539, with the promise that he would never publish his discovery in his books. While teaching in Milan, he and one of his students and assistants, Ludovico Ferrari found a new solution for the cubic equation and the quadratic equation. However, both of the solutions required the use Tartagalia’s discovery in order to solve it. In 543, Cardano and his assistant traveled to Bologna, they came found a solution to the depressed cubic and immediately they published their results on one of Cardano’s books. Approximately, he wrote and published about 131 books during his lifetime, including “The book of my life”, “The Game of Chances”, “The Rules of Algebra”, “Writings on Music” and “Liber de