Hypatia, the first female mathematician

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Hypatia[a] (born c. 350–370; 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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Hypatia is known to have edited at least Book III of Ptolemy's Almagest,[126][127][128] 
which supported the geocentric model of the universe shown.[129][127]