For a mathematician with an interesting and unusual life story, I'd go with Srinivasa Ramanujan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan http://en.wik

For a mathematician with an interesting and unusual life story, I'd go with Srinivasa Ramanujan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan Of course, there are more traditional "greats" like Leonhard Euler, Leibniz, Euclid, or Riemann.