Hypatia
Hypatia of Alexandria “You almost expect to hear: she was a fine philosopher, for a ‘woman’ when hearing about ancient female prodigies. After all, our predecessors' opportunities, especially if they were ‘respectable’ women, were nearly non-existent. Hypatia, however, defies all such qualifiers.”
Hypatia's Accomplishments
“Hypatia of Alexandria was, simply, the last great Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher. She was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. By writing a commentary on The Conics of Apollonius of Perga which divided cones into sections by a plane, Hypatia made geometry intelligible to her students and ultimately transmissible. Since men thronged to hear her ideas on philosophy, she taught neoplatonic ideas to pagans and Christians alike, including Synesius of Cyrene, who helped refine the doctrine of the Trinity. She also taught astronomy.”
“As a Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematic tradition of the Academy of Athens, as represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus; she was of the intellectual school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, which encouraged logic and mathematical study in place of empirical inquiry and strongly encouraged law in place of nature.”
Hypatia's life
“The mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was the daughter of the mathematician Theon Alexandricus (CE 335–405). She was educated at Athens and in Italy. Around CE 400, she became head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, where she imparted the knowledge of Plato and Aristotle to any student; the pupils included pagans, Christians, and foreigners.”
The contemporary 5th-century sources do identify Hypatia of Alexandria as a practitioner and teacher of the philosophy of Plato and Plotinus. Hypatia is known for “her chastity, virtue, and beauty as much as for her ideas in an era of Belfast-style conflict between pagans and Christians. These were formative years for Christian theology, but it still
Hypatia's Accomplishments
“Hypatia of Alexandria was, simply, the last great Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher. She was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. By writing a commentary on The Conics of Apollonius of Perga which divided cones into sections by a plane, Hypatia made geometry intelligible to her students and ultimately transmissible. Since men thronged to hear her ideas on philosophy, she taught neoplatonic ideas to pagans and Christians alike, including Synesius of Cyrene, who helped refine the doctrine of the Trinity. She also taught astronomy.”
“As a Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematic tradition of the Academy of Athens, as represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus; she was of the intellectual school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, which encouraged logic and mathematical study in place of empirical inquiry and strongly encouraged law in place of nature.”
Hypatia's life
“The mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was the daughter of the mathematician Theon Alexandricus (CE 335–405). She was educated at Athens and in Italy. Around CE 400, she became head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, where she imparted the knowledge of Plato and Aristotle to any student; the pupils included pagans, Christians, and foreigners.”
The contemporary 5th-century sources do identify Hypatia of Alexandria as a practitioner and teacher of the philosophy of Plato and Plotinus. Hypatia is known for “her chastity, virtue, and beauty as much as for her ideas in an era of Belfast-style conflict between pagans and Christians. These were formative years for Christian theology, but it still