Fill in the Blanks HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIAOnline version what do you know about Hypathia´s Biography? by EMILIO PIÑEIRO 1 mathematics astrolabe director schools Plutarch planets philosophy Greek hydrometer conic Alexandria hydroscope library Theon mathematics Neoplatonist Hypatia was the daughter of of Alexandria who was a teacher of with the Museum of in Egypt . A center of intellectual and cultural life , the Museum included many independent and the great of Alexandria . Hypatia studied with her father , and with many others including the Younger . She herself taught at the school of philosophy . She became the salaried of this school in 400 . She probably wrote on , astronomy and , including about the motions of the , about number theory and about sections . From the little historical information about Hypatia that survives , it appears that she invented the plane , the graduated brass and the , with Synesius of Greece , who was her student and later colleague .