I have good hope that there is something after death. This is a quote by Plato that I chose to use for the first chapter of my recently published book, Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life. This quote is so profound to me because her legacy continued to live on after Hypatia’s death. Some were negative, some were propaganda, and
The story of her life is an intriguing one! She was a mathematician, an astronomer, a philosopher, and a political advisor, yet she was brutally murdered by church monks. For thousands of years, her death overshadowed her accomplishments. But, eventually, the truth of her life finally surfaced in the history books. Damascius wrote that Theon raised Hypatia with dikaeosyne (justice) and
So, I have a big announcement! It has been quite a while since I popped up on Math! Science! History!! Sooooo, what have I been up to? My book on Hypatia is done! It will be published at the end of June! In other news, in case you haven’t been following me on Instagram, here is the low-down: I put my
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In eighteenth-century Europe, there was an increase in women entering the field of science, more so than in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What happened in the eighteenth century that set women up for success?
The Pythagorean Theorem had been around possibly for thousands of years before Pythagoras was born.