Herafia (about 370-4 15) was the first female mathematician to go down in history. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 370 AD. Her ancestors emigrated from Greece to Egypt. Hippasia's father is a famous scholar and a professor of mathematics at the University of Alexandria. Hippasia is young, intelligent and talented. 10 years old, she knew that the height of the pyramid can be measured by the principle that the corresponding sides of similar triangles are proportional. Under the careful training of her father, Hepthea studied hard. She has finished reading Euclid's Elements of Geometry (about 330- 175 BC), Archimedes' sphere and cylinder (287-2 BC12 BC) and apollonius's conic theory (262- 190 BC). Hippasia not only has extraordinary ability in mathematics, but also has received formal education in philosophy, literature, medicine, art and so on, and has achieved great accomplishments. This made her a well-read female scholar when she was young.

Herafia made the most outstanding contribution to mathematics in her life. She assisted her father in translating Euclid's Elements of Geometry, which became the basis of the Elements of Geometry handed down later. In addition, she also wrote notes for Apollo's conic curve theory and Ptolemy's mathematical compilation (about 90- 168). Hepasia is often invited to give lectures at Bo College. There, she taught the arithmetic of Diophantine (about 246-330), a famous collection of mathematical problems. To this end, Hepthea specially wrote a textbook with comments on arithmetic and some original opinions of her own. She also wrote some other mathematical works, but these materials have not been circulated so far because of the two disasters in Alexandria.

Hypasia also has a high reputation in philosophy. She abides by her faith and firmly believes that reason is the only source of true knowledge. She was upright and upright, using scientific rationalism as a weapon, and bravely exposed the hypocrisy of Christianity. Therefore, the local Christian rulers hated her guts. They regarded Hippasia's theory as heresy and a scourge, and planned to persecute her. One day, under the conspiracy of Archbishop Cgril (376-444) of Alexandria, a group of religious fanatics flocked to Hippasia on the way to give lectures at Bo College. They pulled Hippophae out of the carriage and dragged her to the church, then stripped her naked, pulled out her hair and cut off her flesh piece by piece with sharp shells. Finally, throw her bloody limbs into the fire.

The outstanding daughter of the ancient Greek people, the first female mathematician in the world, died tragically at the hands of a group of vicious religious fanatics. Hippasia defended the truth of science and her faith with her blood and life. This eternal tragedy has become a powerful witness to the evil behavior of the church persecuting scientists in history. Whenever people think of the tragic death of hippasia, they will miss this female scholar who has made outstanding contributions to human civilization and scientific progress.