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Hypatia

Hypatia. Oscar Quiles. Background Info. Father was Theon who was a well know scholar at the University of Alexandria. She was born in 370 AD and died in 415 AD at the hands of an angry mob. Conic Sections.

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Hypatia

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  1. Hypatia Oscar Quiles

  2. Background Info • Father was Theon who was a well know scholar at the University of Alexandria. • She was born in 370 AD and died in 415 AD at the hands of an angry mob.

  3. Conic Sections • Hypatia discovered that if you were to place a flat plane through a cone at different angles you would get different geometric shapes.

  4. Conic Section Continued • Conic sections are used today for the design of car headlights the shape of the parabola helps focus the light more. • In the classroom we study conic sections as a topic .

  5. Opinion / Extra Credit • I wouldn’t say Hypatiawas a great mathematician because she didn’t do anything that changed our life in a major way. • Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt. • Euclid, Ptolemy, and Menelaus were all from Alexandria.

  6. Resouces • http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Conics.htm • http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/qq/database/QQ.09.02/william1.html • http://www.hypatia-phd.com/hypatia.html

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