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Hypatia looked over the large crowd that had gathered to hear her speak. She was living in ancient Egypt, during a time when most women weren’t encouraged to have ideas of their own. But her mathematical mind drew many people eager to hear what she had to say.

Born around 350 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt, to a famous mathematician and philosopher, Hypatia had more freedom than many girls and women because of her respected father. Most women didn’t study math or science, and they weren’t allowed to engage in politics. But Hypatia became one of the first women to study and teach math, astronomy, and philosophy.

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Historians don’t know who Hypatia’s mother was, only that she grew up with her father, Theon, who wanted to raise the “perfect human.” To him, this meant someone who was physically and mentally healthy. So Theon taught Hypatia everything he knew about math, as well as how to be an influential speaker.

Hypatia worked with her father to update old textbooks with new information about geom

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Hypatia

(b. 370, Alexandria, Egypt; d. 415, Alexandria, Egypt)

Hypatia of Alexandria was the first woman to make significant advances in the fields of mathematics and philosophy and was also a respected teacher and astronomer.

Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, a practicing mathematician and teacher, and she was encouraged to develop her talents in the field. Theon invented the astrolabe, a device that measured the altitude of stars and planets, and it is likely that Hypatia assisted with this invention. She became a teacher and eventually the head of a Platonist school in Alexandria, known as the Museum of Alexandria, in 400. It was here that she taught and mentored some of the greatest Pagan and Christian minds of the day, including Orestes, the prefect of Alexandria, who later became a close friend. In teaching, Hypatia focused primarily on the work of two Neoplatonic figures—Plotinus, the philosophy’s founder, and his student Iamblichus.

Hypatia resurrected an interest in Greek religion and goddesses. She came to embody the type of science and learning equat

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Hypatia

4th-century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician

For other uses, see Hypatia (disambiguation).

Hypatia^[a] (born c. 350–370 - March 415 AD)^[1]^[4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt; which, at that time, was a major city of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Alexandria, Hypatia was a prominent thinker who taught subjects including philosophy and astronomy.^[5], and in her lifetime was renowned as a great teacher and a wise counselor. Not the only fourth century Alexandrian female mathematician, Hypatia was preceded by Pandrosion.^[6] However, Hypatia 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 into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga's treatise on conic sections, which has not survived. Many modern scholars also believe that Hypatia may have edited the surviving text of Ptolemy's