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The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

Gerolamo Cardano

I swear to you by the Sacred Gospel, and on my faith as a gentleman, not only never to publish your discoveries, if you tell them to me, but I also promise and pledge my faith as a true Christian to put them down in cipher so that after my death no one shall be able to understand them.

Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano

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Born: September 24, 1501

Died: September 21, 1576 (aged 74)

Bio: Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian polymath, being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler.

Known for:

Ars Magna (1545)
The book on games of chance
Ars magna or The rules of algebra
De libris propriis
Elogio di Nerone

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