| 11421 Cardano | Discovered 1999 June 10 by P. G. Comba at Prescott. |
| Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), prototypical Renaissance man, physician, mathematician, astrologer, inventor and gambler, was the first to publish the solution of the cubic and quartic equations and to give a systematic calculation of probabilities in connection with games of chance. |
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| Reference: 19991123/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2010-06-11 |
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