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Main interests. Mathematics. Astronomy. 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]
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.
Jun 20, 2021 · Hypatia is probably the most famous of the female philosophers from the ancient world, because of her shocking death. But how unusual was she? While Hypatia would most definitely have stood out as a novelty, she was not the only woman who taught philosophy under the Roman Empire.
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. A hydrometer floats in a liquid whose density can be read on its scale.
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...
Sep 2, 2009 · Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370 - March 415) was a female philosopher and mathematician, born in Alexandria, Egypt possibly in 370 (although some scholars cite her birth as c. 350). Little is known of her life but her dramatic death at the hands of Christian fanatics is well-documented and has become what she is best remembered for.
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.
Oct 7, 2017 · Preview. This monograph, dedicated to reconstructing the life and career of the Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher Hypatia, is part of the Women in Antiquity series.
Hypatia of Alexandria, considered the world’s first female mathematician, was born between 350 and 370 CE to her father, the mathematician and philosopher Theon. He raised Hypatia to take over his position as an educator. He achieved this goal, as is evident in Hypatia’s legacy.
The philosopher Hypatia (350/370–415 ce) is one of the outstanding figures in the intellectual life of Late Antiquity. She is considered a symbol of the transformation of science and philosophy under the Christian bishops in Alexandria at the end of the 4th century ce.
