This thinker taught Sylenius of Cyrene, whose letters describing his correspondence is still intact, and another of this thinker's works was the editing of the Arithmetica of Diophantus.
This thinker taught Sylenius of Cyrene, whose letters describing his correspondence is still intact, and another of this thinker's works was the editing of the Arithmetica of Diophantus. One of this thinker's most notable works was the editing of the first treatise on conics by Apollonius. Some sources list this astronomer as the first person to use an astrolabe, but this mathematician from Alexandria was also known for being slain after supporting the religious liturgy of Orestes. However, according to the traditional account of death, this philosopher was dragged from a chariot and stripped into various pieces of bones before being scattered in libraries and the Caesareum. For 10 points, name this ancient scholar that wrote many works on mathematics and was notably a woman.
This thinker taught Sylenius of Cyrene, whose letters describing his correspondence is still intact, and another of this thinker's works was the editing of the Arithmetica of Diophantus.
Hypatia of Alexandria