She was the first women to make substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. This women a was a philosopher but at the same time was a neoplatonic teacher, She also was teacher in Egypt. Hypatia was born in 370 A.D in Alexandria, Egypt. Later on her trajectory she was a young beautifully and well proportioned women. Their father name was Teón de Alejandría, her father was distinguished professor at the University of Alexandria. The mother of hypatia never knew anything.
Hypatia's most famous pupil was Synesius of Cyrene, who later became the Bishop of Ptolemy. It is through some of his letter's that he wrote to Hypatia that researchers are able to learn more about her. In his letters Synesius credits Hypatia with creating an astrolabe and a planesphere, which were both devises for studying astronomy, as well as instruments for distilling water, for measuring the level of water, and for determining the specific gravity of liquids. Very few of these instruments have remained. Also belonged to a school of Greek thought whose beliefs were opposite of the dominant…show more content… At the age of 45 Hypatia was brutally murdered by a mob. The reasons behind her violent death are in dispute, though her personal independence and pagan beliefs seem to have created hostility among Alexandria's Christian community. Another contributing factor appears to have been her alliance with Orestes, the pagan governor of the city, and a political adversary of Cyril (c. 375-444 A.D.), the Alexandrian bishop. After Hypatia was killed, her works perished, along with many other records of ancient learning, when mobs burned the library, destroying the entire collection. Hypatia is said to have dressed in the clothing of a scholar or teacher, rather than in women's clothing. She moved about freely, driving her own chariot, contrary to the norm for women's public