How Did Hypatia Become A Mathematician

One mathematician that I discovered is Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was born in C.355CE and lived in Alexandria. Hypatia lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history, she was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of the mathematics and is daughter of Theon. She was also killed by a fanatical Christian sect. What did Hypatia teach? Hypatia was the earliest female mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher and was also the first woman to impact an early thought in mathematics. In Hypatia’s time she was the worlds leading mathematician and astronomer. Hypatia was also a teacher and lecturer on Philosophical topics. People from other cities even came to study and learn from her because she was mostly known for the work she did in mathematics. …show more content…
And how did she discover she wanted to become a mathematician? Hypatia is the daughter of Theon of Alexandria who was also a mathematician and an astronomer. Hypatia clearly took after her father and became a mathematician and an astronomer but, she also became a philosopher. Theon of Alexandria played in preservation of Euclid’s Elements, he also did commentaries on the Ptolemy’s Almagest and Handy Tables. Hypatia continued her fathers program which was to make effort to preserve the Greek mathematical and astronomical heritage which was credited with commentaries on Apollonius of Pergas conics which was geometry. While editing the work on the conics of Apollonius, it helped to develop the ideas of hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. She also credited with commentaries on Diophantus of Alexandria’s arithmetic which was the number of