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Encyclopedia > Hypatia

Hypatia could refer to:

  • Hypatia of Alexandria (?370–415), a neo-Platonic philosopher, mathematician, and teacher.
  • Hypatia (crater), a lunar crater that lies along the northwest edge of Sinus Asperitatis, a bay on the southwest edge of Mare Tranquillitatis.
  • 238 Hypatia, a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of privitive carbonates.
  • Hypatia (book), written in 1853 by Charles Kingsley.
  • Hypatia (Canadian Female), a beautiful intelligent female with technilogical tendancies living in eastern Canada who is strong willed and carries a hidden heart.

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Hypatia of Alexandria (0 words)
Hypatia was a mathematician, astronomer, and Platonic philosopher.
Hypatia's prominence was accentuated by the fact that she was both female and pagan in an increasingly Christian environment.
"Hypatia: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher" by Nancy Nietupski in Alexandria 2.
Hypatia (0 words)
However, while Hypatia was still under her father's discipline, he also developed for her a physical routine to ensure for her a healthy body as well as a highly functional mind.
Hypatia was known more for the work she did in mathematics than in astronomy, primarily for her work on the ideas of conic sections introduced by Apollonius.
Hypatia was the first woman to have such a profound impact on the survival of early thought in mathematics.
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