VirusWiki - St Hypatia

Hypatia, daughter of Theron, Librarian of Alexandria

She has been discussed on multiple occasions on the list. See also http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html and http://poly.polyamory.org/~howard/Hypatia/Hubbard_1928.html.

A beautiful lady by all accounts, a philosopher, an engineer, an erudite and eloquent conversionalist, an intellectual leader, and the first woman known to have made a significant contribution to mathematics. Murdered by the Christians in March 415 CE, just a few years after they had burnt down the Library of Alexandria. She taught Neoplatonics and came to represent Science and Mathematics - or as the Christians called it, "paganism," which was why they murdered her. Her death marked the marked the start of the diaspora of the scholars of Alexandria, the loss of much ancient knowledge and technology, and the beginning of the rule of Christianity, appropriately known as the "Dark Ages." Despite her writings having been destroyed, the memory of her has endured through the ages. A life so bright that not even the Dark Ages could supress her memory completely.

One relevant quote and a cross reference. The cross reference is the post "RE: virus: saints",Hermit,Sat 2001-04-07 11:36. And the Quote: All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrong is better than not to think at all! Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying! Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for truth -- even more so, since a superstition is intangible you can't get at it, but truth is a point of view, and is so changeable! Hypatia 370-415 C.E.

Few would make better candidates for sainthood in the Church of Virus.

I just thought I should add this old post here, which I found a great reading

http://www.javien.com/forum/XMLmessage.php?id=id::GgYtFFpA-FlxT-ClVH-Q1Uv-VUZFFH0KZ3BI

or here, where you can find that one and more

http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=45;action=display;threadid=20982