Hypatia

While answering a question for my reference class I learned about Hypatia, an ancient female mathematician and astronomer. She has now made the list of historical people I would like to have met along with Hatshepsut and Jane Austen. The other funny thing is that the picture you see of her above is from Raphael's painting The School of Athens which was in my high school math book a bunch of times for Pythagorus whenever we did the Pythagorean Theorum and she's standing right behind Pythagorus but I never noticed her. Of course, so many men in these paintings were too androgynous for me to have identified her as a female. But still, it's strange to think I saw her all that time without knowing it.

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