Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)
She is considered one of the greatest woman scholars. She wrote the first mathematics book by a woman and became the first woman appointed to teach mathematics at a university.

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
Even though I was a famed physician I am probably best known for my work in mathematics. In 1545 I published the book Ars Magna (The Rules of Algebra), which contained solutions to cubic and quartic equations.

Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985)
A probabilist and statistician most noted for his "operational subjective" conception of probability and for the De Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables.

Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170-1250)
He is considered the greatest mathematician of the middle ages. He is best known for the creation of the Fibonacci numbers.

Guido Fubini (1879-1943)
His primary focus was on mathematical analysis, especially differential equations, functional analysis, and complex analysis.

Mathematicians born in Italy
This list includes over 100 mathematicians that were born in Italy.

Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932)
Peano played a key role in the axiomatization of mathematics and was a leading pioneer in the development of mathematical logic.

Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499 or 1500-1557)
He was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs and he gave us the formula for the volume of a tetrahedron.

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