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Cardan, Jerome
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Italian physician and mathematician, born at Pavia; was far-famed as a physician; studied and wrote on all manner of known subjects, made discoveries in algebra, believed in astrology, left a candid account of himself entitled "De Vita Propria"; was the author of "Cardan's Formula" a formula for the solution of cubic equations; he is said to have starved him self to death so as to fulfil a prophecy he had made as to the term of his life (1501-1576).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cardan, Jerome'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/cardan-jerome.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cardan, Jerome'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/cardan-jerome.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
