And how did she discover she wanted to become a mathematician? Hypatia is the daughter of Theon of Alexandria who was also a mathematician and an astronomer. Hypatia clearly took after her father and became a mathematician and an astronomer but, she also became a philosopher. Theon of Alexandria played in preservation of Euclid’s Elements, he also did commentaries on the Ptolemy’s Almagest and Handy Tables. Hypatia continued her fathers program which was to make effort to preserve the Greek mathematical and astronomical heritage which was credited with commentaries on Apollonius of Pergas conics which was geometry. While editing the work on the conics of Apollonius, it helped to develop the ideas of hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. She also credited with commentaries on Diophantus of Alexandria’s arithmetic which was the number of
And how did she discover she wanted to become a mathematician? Hypatia is the daughter of Theon of Alexandria who was also a mathematician and an astronomer. Hypatia clearly took after her father and became a mathematician and an astronomer but, she also became a philosopher. Theon of Alexandria played in preservation of Euclid’s Elements, he also did commentaries on the Ptolemy’s Almagest and Handy Tables. Hypatia continued her fathers program which was to make effort to preserve the Greek mathematical and astronomical heritage which was credited with commentaries on Apollonius of Pergas conics which was geometry. While editing the work on the conics of Apollonius, it helped to develop the ideas of hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. She also credited with commentaries on Diophantus of Alexandria’s arithmetic which was the number of