On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia - 415 AD. Hypatia (ca. AD 350–370–March 415) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher in Roman Egypt who was the first notable woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy.

On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia - 415 AD. Hypatia (ca. AD 350–370–March 415) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher in Roman Egypt who was the first notable woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy.