Hypatia Argumentative Essay

Over the years women have always been looked down upon and seen as incapable of doing anything. According to history men has dominated the mathematical scene and have made the biggest contributions. But, that is far from the case women has made just as big an impact as men if not bigger. A mathematician is not defined by a person’s gender but what they must offer the world past, present and future. Hypatia is known as one of the earliest mothers of mathematics. She lived in Alexandria, Greece from 370 to 415 B.C. She put a lot of her focus on astronomy throughout her life but she enjoyed math as well. Her father, Theon taught her literature, philosophy, science, math and the arts just to make sure she stayed well educated. She published papers and made comments on other famous people of her such as Diophantus (Morrow and Perl). This

In about 1915, Graced decide to publish her work on the different foundations of calculus. It was one of the first times she published anything under her own name. During the same year she won the Gamble Prize from her essay on ‘Infinite Derivatives’ which ended up being the biggest accomplishment in her life especially.

In Part I of the essay, Young proves that:

THEOREM: If f(x) is a continuous function the points at which the upper right-hand derivate f+(x) has the value +∞, while the lower derivate on the other side f–(x) is different from –∞, form a set of content zero.

She then gives an example that shows that "a continuous function may have an infinite derivate at any perfect set nowhere dense. Moreover, it shows that the fact that one of the derivatives is finite everywhere has no influence on this."

Part II is about "On Weierstrass's non-differentiable function and curves without tangents." Weierstrass's example is the