Theon of alexandria biography of william shakespeare

          Theon of Alexandria was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.!

          Theon of Alexandria was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.

          Her old man, Theon of Alexandria, was no slouch — he was a big-shot mathematician, and Hypatia inherited brains like it was going out of style.

        1. Hypatia, (Hupatia), a lady of Alexandria, daughter of Theon, by whom she was instructed in philosophy and mathematics.
        2. Theon of Alexandria was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
        3. None of Hypatia's discourses have been preserved, but we know that with her and with her father, Theon, the great tradition of Plotinus expired at Alexandria.
        4. One of the first women known to study math, astronomy and philosophy, Hypatia de Alexandria was born about A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt.

          5. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and wrote commentaries on works by Euclid and Ptolemy. His daughter Hypatia also won fame as a mathematician.

          Life

          Little is known about the life of Theon. He made predictions and observations of solar and lunar eclipses in 364 which show he was active at that time, and he is said to have lived during the reign of Theodosius I 379–395.

          The Suda, a tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia, calls Theon a "man of the Mouseion".

          However, both the Library of Alexandria and the original Mouseion were destroyed in the first century BC and according to classical historian Edward J. Watts, Theon was probably the head of a school called the "Mouseion", which was named in emulation of the Hellenistic Mouseion that had once included the Library of Alexandria, but which had little other connection to it.

          Theon's school was exclusive, highly prestigious, and doctrina