Hypatia

Hypatia (ca. AD 350–370–8 March 415^[1]) (pron.: /haɪˈpeɪʃə/ hy-PAY-shə; Greek: Ὑπατία; Hypatía) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher in Roman Egypt who was the first well-documented woman in mathematics.^[2] As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}
As a Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematic tradition of the Academy of Athens, as represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus;^[8] she was of the intellectual school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, which encouraged logic and mathematical study in place of empirical enquiry and strongly encouraged law in place of nature.^[2]
According to the only contemporary source, Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria.^[9] Kathleen Wider proposes that the murder of Hypatia marked the end of Classical antiquity,^[10] and Stephen Greenblatt observes that her murder "effectively marked the downfall of Alexandrian intellectual life".^[11] On the other hand, Maria Dzielska and Christian Wildberg note that Hellenistic philosophy continued to flourish in the 5th and 6th centuries, and perhaps until the age of Justinian.^[12]

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<sup>I guess I wasn't paying attention in school when Hypatia was mentioned because I never heard about her until TODAY.

If I could put glasses on her  that would make her the first hot librarian look in history....which as everyone knows is my favorite female look. 
I'm not sure how this glasses obsession thing started but maybe some early Katherine Hephren movie got me interested.

She deserves a bit more attention in the history books.......wouldn't you agree?

And why aren't there more girls with the name.....</sup>

HYPATIA

This is another one of those Christian moments that just makes me say.....

HUH?  &
WTFWYT?