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Hypatia was born around the year 350. Her fathers objective since the day she was born was to make her "the perfect human being." http://www.caryb.co.uk/Women-Hypatia.html -
Hypatia did her studies in Athens, Greece. This was where she was known as a high leveled mathematician. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hypatia/#:~:text=Hypatia%20was%20the%20daughter%20of,Alexandria%20in%20about%20400%20AD.
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Hypatia had went to Alexandria to pursue her teaching career just like her father. She wrote commentaries to make difficult and intricate math questions more understandable for her students. Whilst all of this she was learning philosophy. https://cs.appstate.edu/~sjg/ncctm/activities/hypatia/hypatia.htm -
Again, Hypatia quickly became popular due to her philosophy lectures which had topics of less specialist nature. Her philosophy was "pagan" which had made little religious conflicts between religions https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hypatia -
The idea of neoplatonism is that there is an unreachable reality beyond thought and language. Hypatia believed in this and somewhat promoted it since Alexandria at the time were growing more religious. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hypatia -
Due to how famous hypatia's teaching were starting to get, she attracted large audiences. In result joined as the director of Alexandria's Neoplatonic School. Hypatia taught neoplatonic philosophy. https://hyaptiaofalexandriabymf.weebly.com/biography.html -
Hypatia was accused of witchcraft which turned a lot of heads towards her. This would definitely make it harder to survive since a lot of the Romans were tilting into Christianity. https://www.ted.com/talks/soraya_field_fiorio_the_murder_of_ancient_alexandria_s_greatest_scholar/transcript#t-19937 -
The bishop of Alexandria dies. This means that Hypatia will no longer be protected. The new bishop did not even like people with other beliefs than him. https://classicalchristianity.com/category/bysaint/patriarch-theophilus-of-alexandria-died-ca-412/ -
Since the religious and political tensions were very high and she didn't have any protection from Theophilus. Hypatia was a supporter of the Governor of Alexandria. This caused many people to hate her resulting in her getting murdered https://allthatsinteresting.com/hypatia-of-alexandria -
Even though Hypatia wasn't alive anymore, her influence still was. A lot of her commentaries were destroyed in the many book burnings in Alexandria at the time however her students kept studying on. The students that went to Athens after her death continued the study of mathematics. http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/athena/raphael/nbi_hypa.html
