Which Alexandrian Neoplatonist philosopher, the first recorded female mathematician, was murdered by a Christian mob under the patriarch Cyril in 415 CE?

• A Aspasia
• B Diotima
• C Theano
• D Hypatia ✓

Hypatia of Alexandria, a mathematician, astronomer, and Neoplatonist who taught at the Mouseion, was dragged from her chariot and brutally killed by a mob of Christian zealots — her death has come to symbolize the end of classical pagan learning in late antiquity.