· In the introduction to this book, Michael Deakin expresses surprise that there have been so few full-length treatments of the life and work of Hypatia, and that, in particular, most such accounts have had very little to say about her mathematics. But in fact it is not surprising at all. "Mathematician and historian Michael A.B. Deakin tells the story of this feminist icon who became a martyr to reason and knowledge. Using the limited sources available, Deakin creates an account of the historical milieu of fifth-century Egypt, its intellectual climate in which Hypatia flourished, and the caldron of warring religious factions that threatened to boil over. Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr. In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city /5(26).
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Michael Deakin. Prometheus Books, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 4 Reviews. In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's. Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr: Author: Michael A. B. Deakin: Publisher: Prometheus Books, Original from: the University of Michigan: Digitized: : ISBN. Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr. In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or Beirut is today.
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