Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3732. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Alexandria, Egypt, daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon, and the first woman mathematician of note. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she symbolized the learning that early Christians identified with paganism, and became a focal point of riots during which she was brutally murdered, perhaps under the orders of Cyril, the fanatical Christian Patriarch of Alexand...

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