Jerome Cardan
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Jerome Cardan [1]
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).
