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Hypatia [a] (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) [1] [4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. [5]
Jul 15, 2024 · Hypatia, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists.
Mar 14, 2010 · Hypatia was one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria and one of the first women to study and teach mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Though she is remembered more for her...
Jun 20, 2021 · Hypatia of Alexandria was one of the ancient world’s most brilliant female philosophers. She was especially gifted at mathematics, and she taught a number of prominent dignitaries from across the Roman Empire.
Sep 2, 2009 · Hypatia of Alexandria was a Neo-Platonist philosopher who was murdered by a Christian mob in 415 CE. Her death is often cited as the end of the Classical Age and the beginning of the Christian Period.
Mar 1, 2019 · Hypatia was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who lived in a man’s world in 4th century Alexandria. Times were turbulent and the brutal and sudden end to Hypatia’s life shows just how difficult it was to be a great thinker in that period of history.
Hypatia was a devotee of Neoplatonism – a mystical philosophy with one overriding theme: that everything in the universe has its origins in ‘the One’ – a transcendent god from which the Cosmic Soul and the Divine Mind come.
Hypatia of Alexandria was a mathematician, astronomer, Neoplatonist philosopher and professor at the University of Alexandria, Egypt. We actually don’t know ...
Feb 25, 2021 · The woman who paved the way for female mathematicians. By Elizabeth Hilfrank. Published February 25, 2021. Hypatia looked over the large crowd that had gathered to hear her speak. She was living...
Hypatia of Alexandria was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon of Alexandria and it is fairly certain that she studied mathematics under the guidance and instruction of her father.
