Hypatia
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title:
Hypatia
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Hypatia 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. Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female mathematician, she is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. She wrote a commentary on Diophantus's thirteen-volume Arithmetica, which may survive in part, having been interpolated i
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Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician (died 415)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
date created:
2002-02-08T17:54:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T02:27:55Z
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