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
Though she was Voltaire’s lover, she did not love him nearly as much as she loved …
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When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?
Pacioli was an important person, not just in mathematics but also in accounting and magic…
When Sofya Kovalevskaya obtained the position of full professor at Stockholm University, it was an exceptional accomplishment on behalf of women.
IT’S GIVING TUESDAY!! Several years ago, I wanted to start a charity and call it Rise in STEM. And so, I purchased the URL, and kind of started it. Then, life got in the way. And so, I put the charity on the backburner. The URL www.RiseInSTEM.com sat in my queue for a year, and I didn’t want to sell
Hypatia lived in Alexandria in the fourth and fifth centuries as a mathematician and philosopher. However, she is most famous for the way in which she died.
I am proud to be part of a tribe of women who successfully keep one foot in the entertainment industry while keeping the other foot in math and science. In fact, there may be more than you might know.