To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying. Hypatia wrote: " Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. The focus of her perfection was toward becoming a gifted, eloquent teacher, and this is never more evident than in her writings. Her tones and speech were gentle, as pleasing to the ear as her appearance was comely. Hypatia was also given formal training in speech, rhetoric, and the power of words. Swimming, horseback riding, and mountain climbing were a regular part of her regimen. Her father developed a series of exercises and gentle calisthenics to train her body, forming it into the perfect vessel to carry her imposing, well-trained mind. Her physical prowess and physical health were not neglected. Hypatia's talent at teaching geometry, astronomy, philosophy, and math drew admiring students from all quarters of the Roman Empire, Pagan and Christian. Reserve your right to think, for even to think and be wrong is better than not to think at all."
Hypatia not only accumulated knowledge, soaking it up like a sponge, but with creativity and imagination formulated new ideas and theorems.Ĭoncerning religion her father is reported to have said, " All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. His love of logic and beauty were infectious and he had a rare talent for teaching. Theon was his daughter's teacher and friend. It was there that Hypatia became versed in science, math, philosophy, poetry, the arts, and religion. Her friends and teachers, later to be her colleagues, were the greatest intellectuals of perhaps the most highly academically charged environment in the history of humankind. Hypatia, his daughter, grew up immersed in an atmosphere of scholarship,questioning and investigation at the greatest seat of knowledge in the world, Alexandria.
Theon, her father, was a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Alexandria, later becoming director. Hypatia was legendary for her talent, i ntellect, and yes, her beauty as well. Hypatia, a story of a woman whose formidable genius was not entirely wiped from the pages of history. Hypatia was the single most brilliant mind of her time and none other would ascend to her level until the works of Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz many centuries later. Some suggest that her murder marked the end of what is traditionally known as Classical antiquity. Belonging to a school of Neo-platonic thought, her doctrine was in opposition to the prevailing Christian dogma, a dogma which, unfortunately, had become compulsory in 390 C.E.
She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Christian mob who accused her of causing religious turmoil. Hypatia ( /haɪˈpeɪʃə/ Greek: Ὑπατία, Hypatía born between 350 CE and 370 CE died March 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy.
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