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Hypatia. Background. Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, who also taught her and the last mathematician with the museum of Alexandria. She lived during the Hellenistic era of ancient Greece. Philosophy.
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Background. • Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, who also taught her and the last mathematician with the museum of Alexandria. She lived during the Hellenistic era of ancient Greece.
Philosophy • She worked as a teacher of philosophy, teaching the works of Plato and Aristotle. Both Christians and foreigners were among her students.
The Suda • Socrates Scholacticus wrote in his record called the Suda: There existed a woman named Hypatia, daughter of Theon the philosopher, who had such skill in literature and science that she far surpassed anyone in her own time.
Death • Hypatia was attacked in her carriage by a Christian mob who falsely accused her of religious turmoil. She was dragged out of her carriage and burned after death.
Mathematics • Hypatia contributed ‘Conic Sections’ to math, Conic sections are figures intersected by a plane and a cone.
Science • Her contributions to Science were the charting of Celestial Bodies and she invented the Hydrometer, used to determine density and gravity of liquids.
Works • Hypatia’s works were often created with help from her father Theon. Some of These works were: • A commentary on the 13 volume Arithmatica. • A commentary on the Conics. • Edited Ptolemy’sAlmagest. • Edited her father’s commentary on Euclid’s Elements. • She wrote a text called “The Astronomical Canon”.
Web Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia • http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/hypatia.html • http://www.math.twsu.edu/history/Women/hypatia.html • http://cosmopolis.com/people/hypatia.html • http://www.ricw.ri.gov/publications/GEH/lessons/267.htm
