Hypatia (c. 355-415 CE) was a mathematician, astronomer and Neoplatonist philosopher who taught in Alexandria, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire, where she headed a school of philosophy and was renowned as one of the leading scholars of her era. She is credited with commentaries on earlier mathematical works, including those of Diophantus and Apollonius, though little of her own writing survives directly. In 415 she was murdered by a mob of Christian zealots amid the political and religious tensions of the city, and her death has since become a widely cited symbol of the destruction of classical learning and of violence against women in intellectual life.
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