Hypatia, the first female mathematician
Hypatia[a] (born c. 350370; died 415)[1][5]
was a Hellenistic Neoplatonistphilosopher, astronomer, and mathematician,
who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria
where she taught philosophy and astronomy.[6]
She is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.[7]
Hypatia was renowned in her own lifetime as a great teacher and a wise counselor.
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