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English mathematician William Jones developed the symbol for Pi in 1706.William Jones
A famous Babylon mathematician is from the Middle East
He was really a famous theoretical physicist, best known for the equation e = mc2. This equation describes the relationship between matter and energy. Theoretical physics involves a lot of complex mathematics but it is still physics, and not mathematics for which Einstein is remembered.
Shakuntala Devi Some would say that Shakuntala Devi is not a mathematician, but a calculating prodigy. In terms of contributions to the field of mathematics, good contenders would be Hypatia who was born in the fourth century A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt. Among modern mathematicians, many would choose Emmy Noether, who made significant contributions in abstract algebra. sHAKUNTALA DEVI WAS DAUGHTER OF aRRYABHATTA