UPDATE!! AS OF DECEMBER 18, NO ONE HAS SUBMITTED CORRECT ANSWERS! SO THANKS TO DAVID T. AT ASU, THE PUZZLE HAS BEEN GIVEN AN EXTENSION TO DECEMBER 31, 2025! Welcome to Math! Science! History! It’s December and that means it is Puzzle Month. Hi, I’m Gabrielle Birchak. I’m a science communicator with a background in math, science, and journalism. This year,
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