What modern city would match Hypatia‘s Alexandria? Not in the sense of being filled with murderous mobs, of course, but in terms of being a main repository of knowledge.
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The Modern Alexandria?
September 30, 2010More on Agora and Hypatia
September 28, 2010The movie Agora mentioned in the previous post got me interested in the actual Hypatia, so I picked up “Hypatia of Alexandria, Mathematician and Martyr” by Michael B. Deakin (2007). It discusses the little that is actually known about her, and goes into some depth on what her mathematical contributions were. The author is an [...]
Two Recent Science Movies You Probably Didn’t Get To See
September 21, 2010… unless you live in an ultra-blue city. They are Creation, about what made Darwin finish “On the Origin of Species”, and Agora, about the tragic end of the one of the last great intellectuals of the Classical era, Hypatia of Alexandria. According to Variety, Creation opened on 1/22/2010 in the US, played at a peak [...]
