title_body: Why was the platform/foundation named after Gerolamo Cardano?
upvoted_answer: I think the answer you are looking for can be found at the 3:10 mark (bold part in the transcript below) on this video, but for the consistency of ideas please watch from the 1:43.
  The transcript of this portion of the video is:
  
  Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) was an Italian mathematician, physicist, biologist, physician, chemist, astrologist, philosopher, writer, and gambler.
  During his lifetime he wrote over 200 scientific works and was one of the key figures in the mathematical field of probability during the Renaissance.
  Gerolamo Cardano, is well known for his achievements in algebra.
  He was a teacher in Milan Italy in the 16th century.
  In his 1545 book Ars Magna, he made the first systematic use of negative numbers in Europe, published with attribution the solutions of other mathematicians for the cubic and quartic equations.
  He also acknowledged the existence of imaginary numbers now used in geometry.
  His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae written around 1564, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability.
  He used the game of throwing dice to understand the basic concepts of probability.
  He demonstrated the efficacy of defining odds as the ratio of favorable to unfavorable outcomes.
  For a cryptocurrency project that is looking to utilize scientific methods based on mathematical proofs and game theory to build highly flexible and interoperable money, I think this choice seems to match perfectly.