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Hypatia
Life Span: (355 or 370 -415 AD)
Birthday: Approx 350 AD
Birthplace: Alexandria, Egypt.
Died: 415 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Interesting Facts About Hypatia:

Hypatia was the first woman to make a significant contribution to mathematics.
Her scientific ideas were identified with paganism. She was a pagan.
"Hypatia dressed in the clothing of a scholar or teacher, rather than in women's clothing. She moved about freely, driving her own chariot, contrary to the norm for women's public behavior. She exerted considerable political influence in the city. (About)"

Death:
"Cyril, bishop of Alexandria in 412, publicly preached against Hypatia and her ideas. He is said to have been envious after seeing the hordes waiting to greet her, ordered her death. He is said to have been what incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks in 415 to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. They dragged her from her chariot and, according to accounts from that time, stripped her, killed her, stripped her flesh from her bones with broken pieces of pottery, scattered her body parts through the streets, and burned some remaining parts of her body in the library of Caesareum." (About)

Fields:
Math, Science, and Philosophy

Employment:
400 AD - She became the salaried director of the Neoplatonist school of philosophy at Alexandria, Egypt.

Family:
Her father: scholar and mathematician Theon, the last head of the Museum at Alexandria.
Her husband: the Philosopher Isidorus.

Teacher of:
Synesius

Accomplishments:

Inventions

Possibly, the invention of the Astrolabe (astronomy).
An Instrument for Water Distillation.
A Planisphere.
A tool for measuring the specific gravity of water.

Literary Works

Edited On the Conics of Apollonius - This work developed the concepts of hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. Her work allowed these concepts to be passed on to other mathematicians.

- The first woman to have such an impact on the perpetuation of early thought in math.

Wrote A Commentary on the Arithmetica of Diophantus.
Wrote A Commentary on the Conics of Apollonious.
Edited the third book of her father's Commentary on the Almagest of Ptolemy.

Notes on the time period:
During Hypatia's Lifetime, Christianity became dominate over Paganism in Alexandria.

Riots began in the early 390s, due to religious differences between the Christians and the Pagans. There were two main figures (opposers) in this religious struggle: Cyril (christianity) and Orestes (civil governor). Hypatia was a friend of Orestes, and it is possible that Cyril spread rumors about her that led to her death in order to diminish her influence over Orestes.

References for this Page:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html
http://www.cosmopolis.com/people/hypatia.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/or030897.htm
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_hypatia.htm
http://www.cosmopolis.com/people/hypatia.html

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