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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Jews of Ptolemaic Alexandria, Librarians of Alexandria, Roman-era Alexandrians, Euclid, Eratosthenes, Hero of Alexandria, Diophantus, Hypatia, Menelaus of Alexandria, Callimachus, Hesychius of Alexandria, Pamphilus of Alexandria, Pappus of Alexandria, Apollonius of Rhodes, Artapanus of Alexandria, Appian, Orestes, Calonymus, Aelius Herodianus, Alypius, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Demetrius the Chronographer, Apollodorus, Zenodotus, Achilles Tatius, Asclepiodotus of Alexandria, Arius Didymus, Apollonius Dyscolus, Palladas, Ctesibius, Agathodaemon, Alexandrine grammarians, Sosigenes of Alexandria, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Aristonicus of Alexandria, Theon, Potamo of Alexandria, Ptolemaeus Chennus, Sotion, Nicanor Stigmatias, Apollonius the Sophist, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Amarantus of Alexandria, Eudorus of Alexandria, Acacius, Parmenion, Aelius Theon, Bathyllus, Aeschylus of Alexandria, Seleucus of Alexandria, Galaton, Aristo of Alexandria, Istros the Callimachean, Abdaraxus. Excerpt: Hypatia (b. ca. AD 350-370, d. March 415) ( -sh; Greek: Hypatia) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, who is considered the first notable woman mathematician; she also taught philosophy and astronomy. As a Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematic tradition of the Academy of Athens, as represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus; she was of the intellectual school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, which encouraged logic and mathematical study in place of empirical enquiry. Hypatia lived in Roman Egypt, and was assassinated by a Christian mob who accused her of causing religious turmoil. Kathleen Wilder proposes that the murder of Hypatia marked the end of Classical antiquity, while Maria Dzielska and Christian Wildberg note that Hellenistic philosophy continued to flourish in the 5th and 6th centuries, and perhaps until th...
