famous mathematicians?

INDIA-----:

Bhaskara (1114 – 1185) (kannada ಭಾಸ್ಕರಾಚಾರ್ಯ) (also known as Bhaskara II and Bhaskara Achārya ("Bhaskara the teacher")) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born near Bijjada Bida (in present day Bijapur district, Karnataka state, South India) into the Deshastha Brahmin family. Bhaskara was head of an astronomical observatory at Ujjain, the leading mathematical centre of ancient India. His predecessors in this post had included both the noted Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598–c. 665) and Varahamihira. He lived in the Sahyadri region.

It has been recorded that his great-great-great-grandfather held a hereditary post as a court scholar, as did his son and other descendants. His father Mahesvara was as an astrologer, who taught him mathematics, which he later passed on to his son Loksamudra. Loksamudra's son helped to set up a school in 1207 for the study of Bhāskara's writings.[1]

Bhaskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century. His main works were the Lilavati (dealing with arithmetic), Bijaganita (Algebra) and Siddhanta Shiromani (written in 1150) which consists of two parts: Goladhyaya (sphere) and Grahaganita (mathematics of the planets

ITALY-------- !

Ulisse Dini (November 14, 1845 – October 28, 1918) was an Italian mathematician and politician born in Pisa. The implicit function theorem is known in Italy as the Dini's theorem.

GREECE ------!

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; c. AD 90 – c. 168), known in English as Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmɪ/), was a Roman citizen of Greek or Egyptian ancestry.[1] He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer and a poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology[2][3]. He lived in Egypt under the Roman Empire, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. He died in Alexandria around AD 168.[4]

Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest (in Greek, Ἡ Μεγάλη Σύνταξις, "The Great Treatise", originally Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις, "Mathematical Treatise"). The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. The third is the astrological treatise known sometimes in Greek as the Apotelesmatika (Ἀποτελεσματικά), more commonly in Greek as the Tetrabiblos (Τετράβιβλος "Four books"), and in Latin as the Quadripartitum (or four books) in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day.

Men : Archimedes, Euclid, Sir Isaac Newton, Pythagoras, Blaise Pascal, Carl Gauss, Aryabhatta, Ramanujam Women: Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) Rózsa Péter (1905 - 1977) Julia Robinson (1919 - 1985) Mary Ellen Rudin Eva Tardos Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) Émilie du Châtelet Mary Cartwright Hypatia of Alexandria Marianna Csörnyei Ingrid Daubechies Maria Agnesi Shafi Goldwasser Karen Uhlenbeck Dusa McDuff Annie Moskol

Poke around in the St Andrew's math history site, here:

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/

you will find a lot.

http://www.crystalinks.com/greekmath.html