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The wiki page says he drowned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus
by botanical 3y ago
The wiki page says he drowned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus
- moshun 3y agowas drowned was the version I heard in school.
- frankplow 3y agoIt also says “one writer even has Pythagoras himself "to his eternal shame" sentencing Hippasus to death by drowning, for showing "that 2√2 is an irrational number”.”
- tjbiddle 3y agoIt says he drowned... assumed because of the reason OP gave. Besides, moot point giving you're referencing Wikipedia to begin with. > Hippasus is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers, following which he was drowned at sea. Pythagoreans preached that all numbers could be expressed as the ratio of integers, and the discovery of irrational numbers is said to have shocked them. However, the evidence linking the discovery to Hippasus is unclear. > Pappus merely says that the knowledge of irrational numbers originated in the Pythagorean school, and that the member who first divulged the secret perished by drowning.