Hypatia (c. 370– 415) was aHellenisticNeoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, andmathematician, who lived inAlexandria,Egypt, then part of theEastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she taughtphilosophy andastronomy. She is the firstfemale mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.

• Hypatia was a University lecturer denounced by Church dignitaries and torn to pieces by Christians. Such will probably be the fate of this book: therefore it bears her name. What I have written here I believe and shall not retract or change for similar episcopal denunciations.
  • Dora Russell, quoted in preface of"Hypatia Or Woman And Knowledge" (1925)

• In speech articulate and logical, in her actions prudent and public-spirited. The city gave her suitable welcome and accorded her special respect.
  • Ignotofsky, Rachel (2016). Women In Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed The World. Ten Speed Press. p. 8.ISBN 978-1-60774-976-9. 

• Most people, both Christian and non-Christian, saw Hypatia’s killing as a brutal, unprovoked murder that exploded out of a toxic set of circumstances for which Hypatia bore little responsibility.
  • Watts, Edward J. (2017). Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher. Oxford University Press, USA.ISBN 978-0190210038. 

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