Hypatia | The First Woman Mathematician

Hello friends! This month's mathematician is Hypatia! She is also recognized as the earliest known woman who was a mathematician. I hope you enjoyed the video!

Here are websites in case you want to do further research!

Also, the picture used in the video at 1:39 is curtesy of Ancient History Encyclopedia!!

Thanks guys!!
-Nicole Seheult

[alphanotes]

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[ZingaroXIV]

Hypatia was certainly brilliant and influential. But there were recognized women mathematicians before her. One comes to mind: Pythagoras's wife, Theano. She continued teaching after Pythagoras died. History certainly is murky, but some evidence points to her as the discoverer of the "golden mean", not her husband. Theano and her students were chased out of their homes in southern Italy (then part of Greece). Similar to Hypatia, political adversaries attacked and drove them out. Theano's life is even less clear than Hypatia's, but she certainly deserves credit for her work and her teaching.

[fire_clan]

Used this for my homework. Thanks so MUCH :)

[Delilah-joy]

You will be an amazing youtuber soon, just wait and you'll see

[frankdeleon]

Tragic, so tragic i bet she was beautiful also

[aramatoulayedabo]

So her and her father both studied in ancient black egypt

[shashikamanoj]

Couple of things.
1) Astrolabe was never invented by Hypatia. It existed long before Napoleonic Hypatia's era. In fact it dates back to Hipparcus and Apollonius of Perga who invented it using Euclidean and Archimedean Geometry and astronomy.
2) Hypatia's tragic death is purely a political deal and then existed social upheavals. It has nothing to do with Christian Community or their belief for Hypatia herself was a follower of Napoleonic view which intellectually cohabited with Judeo-christian world view

[thespartan]

A time when Romans thought of war. Greeks thought of philosophy in Alexandria, they thought of thought itself.
There is also one other woman who is even greater than Hypatia in Alexandria, Egypt.

In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ...
He called that ship...HELLAS! 🐬

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus.

[osi]

The first female mathematician had to have been from Ethiopia