Hypatia
of Alexandria
c. 360-415
Hypatia is famous for being the greatest
mathematician and astronomer of her time, for being the leader of the
Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria, and for being skinned
alive with oyster shells by an angry mob of
Christians led by Saint Cyril as they destroyed the great library of Alexandria.
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