Her only known work is a commentary on Book III of her father, Theon's, edition of Ptolemy's Almagest although she may have worked on his edition of Euclid's Elements as well.  
She gave her name to a race of nymph-like women with goat legs in Umberto Eco's Baudolino and to the title of a Charles Kingsley novel alternately titled New Foes With an Old Face.  Many of her philosophical views can be gleaned from the writings of her pupil Synesius who became bishop of Ptolemais.  Her only known work is a commentary on Book III of her father, Theon's, edition of Ptolemy's Almagest although she may have worked on his edition of Euclid's Elements as well.  After becoming embroiled in a conflict with Archbishop Cyril she was killed by a mob of monks.  FTP identify this Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician from Alexandria.
She gave her name to a race of nymph-like women with goat legs in Umberto Eco's Baudolino and to the title of a Charles Kingsley novel alternately titled New Foes With an Old Face.  
Hypatia