She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists. Hypatia was a greek neoplatonist philosopher in roman egypt who was the first welldocumented woman in mathematics. Theon is best remembered for the part he played in the preservation of euclids elements, but he also wrote extensively, commenting on ptolemys almagest and handy tables. Hypatia van alexandrie, een receptiegeschiedenis ethesis. As head of the platonist school at alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy. Hypatia of alexandria, cambridge, massachusettslondon, england. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. She is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.
She was a prominent thinker of the neoplatonic school in alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. In his recent movie agora about the life and death of hypatia the di. She was killed by the christians sent by the bishop of alexandria cyrillus. She became the victim of a particularly brutal murder at the hands of a gang of christian zealots. At that time the emperor theodosios built the great church of alexandria, which is. In both, hypatia s death was a result of a conflict between the orestes and cyril, later made a saint of the church. In dfense of saint cyil and the aexandian cry fom e as persions of mr. Boek maken downloaden als pdf printvriendelijke versie. Hypatia was the daughter of theon of alexandria, himself a mathematician and astronomer and the last attested member of the alexandrian. Al sinds ptolemaeus debatteerden wiskundigen en filosofen er over of wiskunde dan wel.
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