Hypatia of Alexandria : mathematician and martyr / Michael A.B. Deakin.
"Alexandria in 412 CE was a venerable city that honored and preserved great learning. But it was also a city wracked by religious conflict that finds echoes in our own time. Within this maelstrom we find Hypatia, a woman of great intellectual achievement and known as the world's greatest m...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- A note on spelling conventions
- Introduction
- ch. 1. The historical context
- ch. 2. The intellectual background
- ch. 3. The religious background
- A. Christianity
- B. Neoplatonism
- C. The doctrine of the Trinity
- ch. 4. The sources
- ch. 5. The details of Hypatia's life
- ch. 6. Hypatia's work, attitudes and life-style
- ch. 7. Hypatia's death
- ch. 8. Hypatia's philosophy
- ch. 9. Hypatia's mathematics
- A. Background and sources
- B. Book III of the Almagest
- C. Books IV-XIII of the Almagest ;-- D. Apollonius' Conics
- E. The astronomical Canon
- F. The arithmetic of Diophantus
- G. The astrolabe
- H. The "hydroscope"
- I. Other work
- ch. 10. Evaluation
- Appendix A : Mathematical details
- A. Number representation and long division
- B. Conic sections
- C. Diophantine analysis
- D. Stereographic projection
- Appendix B : Pandrosion
- Appendix C : The legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria
- Appendix D : Translations of the primary sources
- A. The Suda, Hesychius, and Damascius
- B. Socrates Scholaticus
- C. John of Nikiu
- D. Synesius of Cyrene
- E. Miscellaneous
- Notes
- Annotated bibliography
- Index.