Category:Named Theorems/Cardano

This category contains results named for Gerolamo Cardano.

Italian mathematician, physician, inventor, astrologer and gambler.

• Published systematic methods for solving cubic and quartic equations. Neither were supposedly discovered by him:
  • The formula for solving the cubic was passed to him by Tartaglia, but (as he discovered later) was in fact originally discovered by Scipione del Ferro.
  • The formula for solving the quartic was discovered by his student Ferrari (and bears Ferrari's name).
• Wrote the first systematic treatment of probability.