Mathematician Biography

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MGF1106 Liberal Arts Math I
Assignment: Mathematician Biography

Please write a biography about one of the mathematicians listed below. Include important life events, their contributions to mathematics and the culture of mathematics, and explanations for a general (i.e. non-mathematical) audience explaining their contributions and applications thereof. You may write about a mathematician not on this list as long as you clear it with me first.

Length: 5 pages double spaced (1200 1500 words), 12 point

Sources:     At least 5 sources, 2 of them actual (physical or virtual) books, none of them Wikipedia
        MLA / APA citation format
(will receive turnitin.com report)

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi
Kurt Gdel
Georg Cantor
Evariste Galois
Bernhard Riemann
Pierre de Fermat
Henri Poincare
Leonhard Euler
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
John Nash
Alan Turing
Benoit Mandelbrot
David Blackwell
Martin Gardener
Andrew Wiles
Richard Feynman
Hypatia of Alexandria
Emmy Noether
Marie Crous
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Mary Cartwright
Ada Lovelace
Katherine Johnson
Sophie Germain
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Danica McKellar
Maryam Mirzakhani