Biography hypatia in ancient rome

4th-century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician

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Hypatia^[a] (born c. – - March AD)^[1][4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy.^[5] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female mathematician,^[6] she is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. Hypatia was renowned in her own lifetime as a great teacher and a wise counselor.

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 te Hypatia of Alexandria: A Classical Age Female Scholar VOLI