Hypatia Research Paper

Today, we meet a great 4th-century mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia of Alexandria was an outstanding individual and didn’t only bless the math world but also involved in Neoplatonist, and rationalist. The part of Hypatia’s life we are going to examine today is her life in mathematics. She was brought up in the math world ushered by her father Theon of Alexandria, and eventually replaced him as the mathematician of Alexandria (Osen). Hypatia was born in a museum, it was the great center of learning and the storehouse of knowledge in the ancient world, in the year of AD 370. Hypatia was gifted in every way, she was beautiful, and about as smart as they come. A famous quote from her father reads “Reserve your right to think, for even the wrongly is better than not to think at all. Theon had high expectations for his daughter for he was intent on producing a perfect human being. For this reason, Hypatia was a fortunate child. Theon also made his daughter do physical activities, such as rowing, swimming, and horseback riding, to keep Hypatia physically fit. Hypatia was trained in speech enhancing her ability to relay her knowledge to others and her giftedness to be an orator (Eves). Hypatia was also very well-traveled, while traveling abroad in Athens, Greece, Hypitaia attended a university where she established her fame as a mathematician. One of the greatest attributes of Hypatia is she didn’t take her knowledge and keep it sealed to herself, she also was a teacher. She taught neo-Platonist philosophy, and astronomy, at the same institute as her father, and was regarded as an excellent teacher (Eugene). Hypatia

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