Oscar Quiles
Father was Theon who was a well know scholar at the University of Alexandria. She was born in 370 AD and died in 415 AD at the hands of an angry mob.
Hypatia discovered that if you were to place a flat plane through a cone at different angles you would get different geometric shapes.
Conic sections are used today for the design of car headlights the shape of the parabola helps focus the light more. In the classroom we study conic sections as a topic.
I wouldn’t say Hypatia was a great mathematician because she didn’t do anything that changed our life in a major way. Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Euclid, Ptolemy, and Menelaus were all from Alexandria.
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