Hypatia was one of the most eminent mathematicians and astronomers of late antiquity. Scholars traveled from around the classical world to learn mathematics and astronomy at her school. Hypatia is the first woman mathematician about whom we have either biographical knowledge or knowledge of her mathematics.

Hypatia[a] (born c. 350â€370 †march 415 ad) [1][4] was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in alexandria, at that time in the province of egypt and a major city of the …