Did Hypatia Know about Negative Numbers?
  In this Letter we comment on one particular aspect of Hypatia's enigmatic biography by translating into English a short poem that appeared in a recent review of the third revised Polish edition of Maria Dzielska's book about Hypatia. It poses a simple and specifc question: did Hypatia know about the negative numbers? 
Marek Abramowicz (1), Anna Cetera (2) ((1) Physics Department,   Goteborg University, Sweden, (2) English Literature Departm...
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