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Hippasus, engraving by Girolamo Olgiati, 1580. Hippasus of Metapontum (/ ˈ h ɪ p ə s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) [1] was a Greek philosopher and early follower of Pythagoras. [2] [3] Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers.

Some of you know Pythagoras as the guy who correctly came up with the ratio of the sides of a right triangle. ... especially since there’s another rumor that Hippasus was killed not for coming ...

Why Did They Kill Hippasus? In the 5th century BC, the philosopher Hippasus discovered that some numbers could not be expressed as a ratio of two different numbers, and thus were irrational. ... Pythagoras had himself proven that the sum of squares of the sides in a right triangle is always equal to the square of the hypotenuse. For the ...

The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend.What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is ...

The Greek mathematician Hippasus of Metapontum is credited with discovering irrational numbers in the 5th century B.C., according to an article from the University of Cambridge. Did Pythagoras murder Hippasus? The wrath of Pythagoras burst out when he knew Hippasus “revealed” the result to some of his close friends.

The murder of Hippasus is a matter of legend, but the secret was real, and certainly dangerous enough to the beliefs of those who knew about it. It was a secret owned by the school of Pythagoras. These early Greek mathematicians (Pythagoras himself was born around 569 BC ) were obsessed with the significance of whole numbers and their ratios.

Hippasus of Metapontum (flourished c. 500 bc) was a philosopher and an early follower of Pythagoras. He was coupled by Aristotle with Heraclitus in identifying fire as the first element in the universe. Some traditions say that he was drowned after revealing a mathematical secret of the Pythagorean brotherhood.

Hippasus was according to legend murdered by the Pythagoras for finding out that the square root of two was irrational. Hippasus was found face down in the mediteranian. He died of water inhalation's

Hippasus is also famous for revealing how to construct a dodecahedron (a beautiful 3D shape made from twelve regular pentagons). At the time, this was a closely guarded secret; fortunately these days mathematicians who have made a new discovery are more likely to shout it from the rooftops.

Did they kill him because Hippasus had divulged a secret? Betrayed an oath? ... “Now they say that Pythagoras did not leave behind him a single book, but they talk foolishly for Heraclitus, the natural philosopher, speaks plainly enough of him saying, ‘Pythagoras, the son of Mnesarchus, practiced inquiry beyond all other men, and making ...

How much do we actually know about the Pythagoreans ostensibly murdering Hippasus (or anyone) over the irrationality of the square root of 2? This is of course an infamous story in folk-history. Among the Pythagoreans, circa 500 BC, it became known that the square root of 2 could not be a rational number (or rather that 2 lengths could be ...

Perhaps there is a way to resolve these differences: Hippasus did indeed discover irrational numbers when constructing a dodecahedron. However, the most precise way to deal with this problem is to abandon statements that lack evidence. ... So, one certain thing is he was hated by Pythagoras’ followers, a characteristic of the Pythagorean ...

Hippasus was born in southern Italy and was a student of Pythagoras, who was one of the most influential philosophers of ancient Greece. The Pythagoreans were known for their love of mathematics and their belief in the idea that mathematical concepts could help explain the universe. As a member of this school, Hippasus was steeped in these ...

Pythagoras believed that "all is numbers" and they maintained that all numbers can be expressed as a fraction, then Hippasus (maybe) showed some numbers cannot be expressed that way. Pythagorus thought this idea was stupid and he had him killed, but this could not stop the eventual collapse of his school.

Some writers have Hippasus making his discovery while on board a ship, as a result of which his Pythagorean shipmates toss him overboard;[30] while one writer even has Pythagoras himself "to his eternal shame" sentencing Hippasus to death by drowning, for showing "that √2 is an irrational number."[31] See also. Incommensurable magnitudes ...

Greek Pythagorean philosopher who used geometric methods to demonstrate that the hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle with legs of length one (i.e, \sqrt{2}, sometimes called Pythagoras's constant ) cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers. A number of this type is now called an irrational number. Legend has it that Hippasus made his discovery at sea and was thrown overboard by fanatic ...

The finding challenged one of the core principals of Pythagoras's work, and the mathematician purportedly killed him. According to the story, the pair was on a boat together. When Hippasus revealed his contradictory calculations, Pythagoras allegedly pushed him overboard, drowned him, and forced the rest of the cult to keep the incident secret.

But Hippasus showed the square root of two cannot be expressed that way. This horrified the Pythagoreans and they tried to keep it a secret. They failed miserably at it, and the school eventually collapsed. Pythagoras was so infuriated by the discovery that he ordered Hippasus be killed by drowning him in the sea.

Who did the Pythagoreans drown? Hippasus of Metapontum Hippasus of Metapontum, (flourished c. 500 bc), philosopher, early follower of Pythagoras, coupled by Aristotle with Heraclitus in identifying fire as the first element in the universe. Some traditions say that he was drowned after revealing a mathematical secret of the Pythagorean brotherhood.