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1501–1576 Italy
Gerolamo Cardano (September 24, 1501 – September 21, 1576) was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler, applying probability calculus to games of chance.
Italy Astrologers Mathematicians Physicians Also known as: Jerome Cardan
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Better it is to have the worst, than none at all.
Cardanus Comforte (1574)
I am able to admit two distinct trains of thought to my mind at the same time.
For as positio refers to a line, quadratum to the surface, and cubum to a solid body, it would be very foolish for us to go beyond this point. Nature does no permit it.
The Great Rules of Algebra (1968)
Yet I avoid this practice in the presence of my benefactors and of my superiors.
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
I am cold of heart, warm of brain, and given to never-ending meditation; I ponder over ideas, many and weighty, and even over things which can never come to pass.
So necessarie is this gift of consolacion, as there livith no man, but that hathe cause to embrace it. for in these things better is it to have any than none at al.
Cardanus Comforte (1574)
My personal affairs are not as highly esteemed as men commonly value their own interests—vain, empty affairs like those great clouds seen in the wake of the sunset which are meaningless and soon pass away.
Since this art surpasses all human subtelty and the perspecuity of mortal talent and is truly a celestial gift and a very clear test of the capacity of man's minds, whoever applies himself to it will believe that there is nothing that he cannot understand.
The Great Rules of Algebra (1968)
From these beginnings, as it were, have issued bitterness, contentious obstinancy, lack of amenity, hasty judgement, anger, and an intense desire for revenge—to say nothing of headstrong will; that which many damn, by word at least, was my delight.