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A Short Biography of Hypatia of Alexandria

Author Name:

Hypatia of Alexandria

Born As:

Hypatia of Alexandria.

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Born:

360

Died:

415




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Atheist, mathematician, teacher, astronomer and philosopher                          
                          
Daughter of Theon, a Mathematician and Keeper of the Great Library of Alexandria.                          
                          
Considered to have been the first woman to write on
the subject of mathematics.

Instructed by her father not to let any rigid system of religion take possession of her life and exclude the discovery of new scientific truths and scientific rationalism.

Hypatia was horrifically tortured and murdered by a Christian mob at a time when such events were policy.

After Hypatia's murder, The Great Library of Alexandria was fired and destroyed. Of the 123 plays of Sophocles in the Library, only seven survived.

Followed the school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, discouraging empirical enquiry and encouraging logical and mathematical studies.