Hypatia

(370-415)

...Thank you, my dear friend, for your concern. i know Cyril is a fanatic, but I cannot imagine he would harm me because of my mathematics, my work as a teacher at the museum, or even because I would not become a Christian...Even if my life is in danger, what good is a life that one does not live as one chooses?...
--Hypatia₁

Alexandria Egypt! What comes to mind? Greek temples and Egyptian Queens...perhaps Cleopatra? But the same mediteranian city was later home to another legendary woman...Hypatia. As Lynn M. Osen writes " Despite her legendary talents, her beauty, her long life of hard work, and her celebrated accomplishments in mathematics and astronomy, the story of her eventual martyrdom excites almost the same sympathies as a classic Greek tragedy."₂


	References: Hypatia of Alexandria Dzielska, Maria, translated by Lyra,F.,Harvard University Press; Cambridge MA, London England. 1995. ^1.Mathematical Scandals Theoni Pappas, Wide World Publishing/Tetra, San Carlos, CA. 1997. ^2.Women in Mathematics Osen, Lynn M.,The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England. 1974.

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