Hypatia

Hypatia... torn to pieces by Christians

Hypatia (c. 370– 415) was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. She is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.

Quotes about

• Hypatia was a University lecturer denounced by Church dignitaries and torn to pieces by Christians. Such will probably be the fate of this book: therefore it bears her name. What I have written here I believe and shall not retract or change for similar expiscopal denunciations.
  • Dora Russell, quoted in preface of "Hypatia Or Woman And Knowledge" (1925)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Hypatia at Wikipedia
• Works related to Author:Hypatia at Wikisource
• Media related to Hypatia at Wikimedia Commons
• Dora Russell: "Hypatia Or Woman And Knowledge" (1925)