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 Hypatia **OCCUPATION:** MATHEMATICIAN, PHILOSOPHER, AND TEACHER AT THE NEOPLATONIC SCHOOL AT ALEXANDRIA

HYPATIA WAS BORN IN THE YEAR 370.
 * BIRTH:**

SHE WAS KILLED BY A CHRISTIAN MOB AT THE AGE 45 IN THE YEAR 415
 * DEATH:**

SHE WAS BORN IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. **KNOWN FOR:**  Making a planisphere, distilling sea water, and studying algebra. She is the only women mentioned in ancient mathematical history. 
 * PLACE OF BIRTH:**
 * SCIENCE EXPLANATION: ** Hypatia did many things such as making a planisphere. A planisphere is a map of the stars and where they move. She also found out how to distill water which basicily means she found out how to purify water. When she was alive algebra was a new math subject and she was very interested in it and soon she was teaching her students this new subject (she was a teacher).

She was a teacher at the Alexandria University, she was an author of a few books about mathemaics, she was a poet, she was an astronomer, and her father taught her art, litterature, science, and philosophy.
 * CAREER:**

<>SHE NEVER MARRIED ANY ONE WHILE SHE WAS ALIVE<> <>SHE DESIGHNED SOME SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENSTS SUCH AS THE STILL, AN ASTROLABLE, AND A HYDROMETER<> <>SHE DIED WHEN SHE WAS 45<>   <>IF SHE WAS NOT KILLED MATH WOULD HAVE BEEN WAY MORE ADVANCED TODAY BUT BECAUSE SHE DIED MATH WAS NOT REPEATED FOR ABOUT 1000 YEARS<> <>HER FATHER HAD AN EXPERIMENT THAT HE WANTED TO PROVE THAT HE COULD MAKE THE PERFECT PERSON AND HYPATIA WAS THIS EXPERIMENT<> <>HER FATHER WAS THEON<> ** REFRENCES: ** OGILVIE,MARILYN AND JOY HARVEY, ED.THE BIOGRAPHICALDICTIONARY OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE. VOL 1.NEW YORK:ROUTLEDGE, 2000.
 * DID YOU KNOW:**
 * "Hypatia." __Encyclopædia Britannica __. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 24 Sept. 2009 <[]>.

 M.I.T.,"Women in Mathematics": Cambridge, MA Press,1974 **