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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.Description: 231 p., 4 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781591025207 (alk. paper)
  • 1591025206 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA29.H88 D43 2007
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.