Hypatia of Alexandria : mathematician and martyr / Michael A.B. Deakin.

• The historical context -- The intellectual background -- The religious background. Christianity ; Neoplatonism ; The doctrine of the Trinity -- The sources -- The details of Hypatia's life -- Hypatia's work, attitudes and life-style -- Hypatia's death -- Hypatia's philosophy -- Hypatia's mathematics. Background and sources ; Book III of the Almagest ; Books IV-XIII of the Almagest ; Apollonius' Conics ; The astronomical Canon ; The arithmetic of Diophantus ; The astrolabe ; The "hydroscope" ; Other work -- Evaluation -- Appendix A. Mathematical details. Number representation and long division ; Conic sections ; Diophantine analysis ; Stereographic projection -- Appendix B. Pandrosion -- Appendix C. The legend of St Catherine of Alexandria -- Appendix D. Translations of the primary sources. The Suda, Hesychius, and Damascius ; Socrates scholaticus ; John of Nikiu ; Synesius of Cyrene ; Miscellaneous.

Ämnesord

Alexandrinska skolan  (sao)

Matematik  -- historia (sao)

Alexandrian school  (LCSH)

Mathematicians  -- Egypt -- Biography. (LCSH)

Women mathematicians  -- Egypt -- Biography. (LCSH)

Philosophers  -- Egypt -- Biography. (LCSH)

Women philosophers  -- Egypt -- Biography. (LCSH)

Kvinnliga matematiker  -- Egypten (sao)

History and biography 

Alexandrian school  (LCSH)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Hypatia, d. 415.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ta:k Matematikens historia

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

QA29.H88 (LCC)

510.92 (DDC)

01 (msc)

Ta:k (kssb/8)

Lz Hypatia (kssb/8)