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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.

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 ...

Hippasus is credited in history as the first person to prove the existence of ‘irrational’ numbers. His method involved using the technique of contradiction, in which he first assumed that ‘Root 2’ is a rational number. ... They considered his discovery to be a ridicule of the absolute truth, and condemned him to death. He was flung ...

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.

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 was a Greek philosopher and mathematician who lived in the 5th century BCE. He was a member of the Pythagorean school of thought and is remembered for his contributions to the fields of mathematics and philosophy. ... Hippasus is also remembered for his death. According to legend, he was cast into the sea by the ...

Hippasus of Metapontum (/ˈhɪpəsəs/; Greek: Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC)[1] was a Pythagorean philosopher.[2] ... Iamblichus says about the death of Hippasus. It is related to Hippasus that he was a Pythagorean, and that, owing to his being the first to publish and describe the sphere from ...

Hippasus of Metapontum, a Greek mathematician and philosopher, who probably lived in the late 5 th century BC, is widely believed to have been the first to discover irrational numbers, and to have died for achievement, either as divine retribution by the Gods, or put to death by his fellow Pythagoreans.

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

Legend has it that Pythagoras sentenced the first person to discover irrational numbers, Hippasus of Metapontum (c.530-450 BC), to death. He was tossed overboard a ship to drown. Why? Pythagoras taught that number was the essence and cause of all things, and for Pythagoras and his followers, numbers meant integers.

Hippasus of Metapontum (hpss Greek , Hppasos fl. 5th century BC), was a Pythagorean philosopher. Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers. ... Iamblichus says about the death of Hippasus. It is related to Hippasus that he was a Pythagorean, and that, ...

The discovery of irrational numbers is usually attributed to Pythagoras, more specifically to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who produced a (most likely geometrical) proof of the irrationality of the square root of 2. ... but his beliefs would not accept the existence of irrational numbers and so he sentenced Hippasus to death by drowning.

Metapontum in Magna Graecia is usually referred to as his birthplace,[6][7][8][9][10] although according to Iamblichus (3rd century AD) some claim Metapontum to be his birthplace, while others the nearby city of Croton.[11] ... Iamblichus says about the death of Hippasus: It is related to Hippasus that he was a Pythagorean, and that, owing to ...

Legend has it that Pythagoras sentenced the first person to discover irrational numbers, Hippasus of Metapontum (c.530-450 BC), to death. He was tossed overboard a ship to drown. ... Hippasus had to die. The existence of irrational numbers became a Pythagorean secret. They were called “unutterables” because in Greek, the ratio between two ...

Hippasus — of Metapontum ( el. Ίππασος), b. c. 500 B.C. in Magna Graecia, was a Greek philosopher. He was a disciple of Pythagoras. He was a disciple of Pythagoras. To Hippasus (or Hippasos) is attributed the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers.

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 far from clear. Hippasus was a Pythagorean, a member of a sect that dealt with mathematics and number mysticism, among other things.

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 ...

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.The discovery of irrational numbers is said to ...

HIPPASUS OF METAPONTUM* BY KURT VON FRITZ (Received October 23, 1944) The discovery of incommensurability is one of the most amazing and far- ... death of the mathematician Theaetetus after a battle in which he had been fatally wounded.4 The fictive date of the dialogue is the year 399 B.C., that is,

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.