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Hypatia's father Theon of Alexandria is best known for having edited the existing text of Euclid's Elements, [11] [12] [13] shown here in a ninth-century manuscript. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria (c. 335 – c. 405 AD).
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley.It is a fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia, and tells the story of a young monk called Philammon who travels to Alexandria, where he becomes mixed up in the political and religious battles of the day.
In 2007, he published the book Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr (Prometheus Books). [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Aimed at a popular audience, the book is "at least in part, a response to Maria Dzielska 's Hypatia of Alexandria ", which had focused on the historical and literary legacy of Hypatia at the expense of her mathematics, and ...
Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 360 ... "Chronological List of Western Philosophers". ... London: Rathbone Books, Ltd. External links
Theon of Alexandria (/ ˌ θ iː ə n,-ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Θέων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. AD 335 – c. 405) was a Greek [1] scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and wrote commentaries on works by Euclid and Ptolemy. His daughter Hypatia also won fame as a mathematician.
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Maria Celina Dzielska (née Dąbrowska, 18 September 1942 – 30 July 2018) was a Polish classical philologist, historian, translator, biographer of Hypatia and political activist. She was a Professor of Ancient Roman History at Jagiellonian University .
Hypatia, the main character in the 2009 film Agora, played by Rachel Weisz Dr. Alexandria Hypatia, a character named for Hypatia of Alexandria in the video game Dishonored 2 The scientific research ship Hypatia in the novel Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff