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 ...

Sometime in the 5th century B.C. the Greek philosopher Hippasus of Metapontum, a member of the secretive Pythagorean brotherhood, left his home in southern Italy and boarded a seagoing ship.

And I mean they really didn’t want to hear about it. Along, according to legend, came Hippasus. Hippasus was a Pythagorean, and he was an excellent mathematician. That didn’t work out well for ...

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. While working on a ...

One of the earliest examples comes from ancient Greece. A mathematician named Hippasus was having trouble solving certain equations with fractions and whole numbers alone, so he came up with ...

One of the most notorious examples in mathematics involved the murder of Hippasus of Mesapontum. The Pythagoreans, a mysterious and secretive group, believed that mathematics was the key to the ...

The play follows the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras, whose cult of followers is upended when a newcomer named Hippasus introduced the concept of irrational numbers. Wells’ fascination ...

Hippasus of Metapontum was a Greek philosopher who lived approximately 500 BC. A disciple of Pythagoras, Hippasus discovered some interesting properties of square roots. This Design Idea describes a ...

Elegance in Science: The Beauty of Simplicity By Ian Glynn, Oxford, Rs 695 Hippasus, a fifth-century-BC Greek mathematician, is said to be the first martyr of science. He had to pay the price for ...