Hippasus
Hippasus Hippasus of Metapontum, born circa 500 B.C ...
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Square root of 2
... numbers is usually attributed to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who produced a (most likely ... root of 2. The story goes that Hippasus discovered irrational numbers when trying to represent ... of irrational numbers and so he sentenced Hippasus to death by drowning. Computation algorithm There ...
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Irrational number
... to Pythagoras, more specifically to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who produced a (most likely ... root of 2. The story goes that Hippasus discovered irrational numbers when trying to represent ... of irrational numbers and so he sentenced Hippasus to death by drowning. Later Greek mathematicians ...
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Drown   (translated from German)
... prominent victims of this punishment method is Hippasus, a pupil of the Pythagoras. After the legend left Pythagoreer Hippasus drown, after these the marvelous proof for ...
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Surd   (translated from German)
... Greeks introduced the term of the surd. Hippasus out Metapontum, a pupil of the Pythagoras ... on instruction of Pythagoras drowned its, after Hippasus had determined the existence of surds (the ...
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Talk:Pythagoras
... do no harm"; when Pythagoras himself drowned Hippasus after not wanting to believe that Hippasus's discovery of the square root of ...
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Root 2   (translated from German)
... math> agrees. Over 500 v. Chr. discovered Hippasus from Metapontum, a pupil of Pythagoras and ...
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Category:Greek people stubs
... Gousgounis H Harpalus Hesychios of Alexandra Hicetas Hippasus Hydna I Ilias Kafetzis Ilos Ioannis Alevras ...
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Agrionia
... their children they would eat and selected Hippasus, son of Leucippe. Plutarch also say that ...
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Meanings of asteroid names (17001-18000)
... and actor* 17492 Hippasos 1991 XG 1 Hippasus of Metapontum, Ancient Greek philosopher* 17493 Wildcat ...
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