Famous Italians
- Niccolo Fontana “Tartaglia”- self taught, ambitious mathematician,applied mathematics to cannonball trajectory
- translated works of Archimedes and Euclid
- won 1535 Bologna University mathematics competition
- Gerolamo Cardano- Renaissance mathematician and physician
- Wrote over 200 works on mathematics, physics, philosophy, religion, and music
- Formulated the elementary rules of probability due to gambling addiction
- Lodovico Ferrari- servant of Cardano
- professor of mathematics at Bologna University in 1565