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Hypatia [a] (born c. 350–370 - March 415 AD) [1] [4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt: at that time a major city of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Alexandria, Hypatia was a prominent thinker who taught subjects including philosophy and astronomy.
Elza Furtado Gomide (1925–2013), Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo; Cohl Furey, Canadian mathematical physicist; Fumiko Futamura, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective
Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.
English mathematician and the world's first computer programmer. ... Famous female politicians. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 1989-. Activist, U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional ...
Pandrosion of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Πανδροσίων) was a mathematician in fourth-century-AD Alexandria, discussed in the Mathematical Collection of Pappus of Alexandria and known for having possibly developed an approximate method for doubling the cube. Although there is disagreement on the subject, Pandrosion is believed by many ...
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2016: French mathematician Claire Voisin received the CNRS Gold medal, the highest scientific research award in France. [112] 2016: The London Mathematical Society's Women in Mathematics Committee was awarded the Royal Society's inaugural Athena Prize. [113] 2017: Nouzha El Yacoubi became the first female president of the African Mathematical ...
Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350–415 CE), daughter of Theon of Alexandria, was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. [21] [22] She is the earliest female mathematician about whom detailed information has survived. [22] Hypatia is credited with writing several important commentaries on geometry, algebra and astronomy.