Who is the earliest known female mathematician?
Hypatia
Kingsley's novel was tremendously popular;[214][215] it was translated into several European languages[215][216] and remained continuously in print for the rest of the century.[216] It promoted the romantic vision of Hypatia as "the last of the Hellenes"[215] and was quickly adapted into a broad variety of stage productions,[216] the first of which was a play written by Elizabeth Bowers, performed in Philadelphia in 1859, starring the writer herself in the titular role.[216] On 2 January 1893, a much higher-profile stage play adaptation Hypatia, written by G. Stuart Ogilvie and produced by Herbert Beerbohm Tree,[217][218] opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London.[217][218] The title role was initially played by Julia Neilson, and it featured an elaborate musical score written by the composer Hubert Parry.[217][218] The novel also spawned works of visual art,[204] including an 1867 portrait of Hypatia as a young woman by the early photographer Julia Margaret Cameron[204][219] and an 1885 painting by Charles William Mitchell showing a nude Hypatia standing before an altar in a church.[204]