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Question: Write a biography about one of the mathematicians

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.

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 or APA citation format

Srinivasa Ramanujan Indian math prodigy, worked in number theory Mohammad al-Khwarizmi Persian scientist whose books popularized algebra Kurt Goedel Austrian / American mathematician who worked on the philosophy and foundations of math Georg Cantor German mathematician who first developed the idea of a set Evariste Galois French mathematician who invented whole branches of abstract algebra and met a tragic fate Bernard Riemann German mathematician who formalized calculus and whose work led to Einstein''s general relativity Pierre de Fermat French number theorist known for his famous Last Theorem Henri Poincare French physicist / mathematician who helped develop relativity and posed a problem that wasn''t solved for almost 100 years Leonhard Euler Hugely influential Swiss mathematician who developed graph theory and contributed greatly to calculus and analysis, as well as much of our modern math notation J. Ernest Wilkins Jr American nuclear scientist and mathematician, attended U of Chicago at age 13 and worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb John Nash American pioneer of game theory whose story was told in A Beautiful Mind Alan Turing British number theorist whose team cracked the Nazi Enigma code in WWII, story told in The Imitation Game Benoit Mandelbrot Polish/French/American who first studied fractal geometry David Blackwell American statistician and first black member of the National Academy of Sciences Martin Gardener American writer who wrote about "recreational math" for Scientific American Andrew Wiles British number theorist who proved Fermat''s Last Theorem over 300 years after Fermat came up with it Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist who helped popularize physics and math in the 1960s Hypatia of Alexandria Egyptian / Byzantine woman who taught classical philosophy and math, and was murdered by political enemies Emmy Noether German mathematician who contributed greatly to modern algebra / abstract algebra Marie Crous French mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France (which led to the metric system) Mary Fairfax Somerville Scottish mathematician and astronomer, (co-)first woman member of the Royal Astronomical Society Mary Cartwright British mathematician and early developer of chaos theory Ada Lovelace English mathematician and first computer programmer (on Babbage''s analytical engine in 1837) Katherine Johnson NASA mathematician who carried out the complex calculations needed for pioneering space flight Sophie Germain French mathematician who collaborated with other famous mathematicians under an assumed name Sofia Kovalevskaya Russian mathematician known for her work in differential equations and analysis Danica McKellar American former actress and current popularizer of math Maryam Mirzakhani First woman to win the Fields Medal, math''s highest prize; she died tragically at only 40