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Hypatia of Alexandria : mathematician and martyr
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- Creator
- Michael A.B. Deakin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 231 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781591025207, 1591025206
- OCLC
- ocm78791004
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.
- 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