- this
story either do not
mention Hippasus by name (e.g. Pappus)[full
citation needed] or
alternatively tell that
Hippasus drowned because he
revealed how...
- ratios.'
Another legend states that
Hippasus was
merely exiled for this revelation.
Whatever the
consequence to
Hippasus himself, his
discovery posed a very...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Hippasus or
Hippasos (Ancient Gr****: Ἴππασος) is the name of
fourteen characters.
Hippasus, son of King
Eurytus of
Oechalia and one...
- Eurystheus. Ceyx's son
Hippasus accompanied Heracles on his
campaign against King
Eurytus of Oechalia,
during which Hippasus was
slain in battle. Ceyx...
- was
chosen by lot to
offer a
sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own son
Hippasus, whom the
sisters tore to pieces. The
sisters afterwards roamed over the...
-
Aristaeus Bryson Callippus Democritus Dicaearchus Dinostratus Eudemus Eudoxus Hippasus Hippias Hippocrates Leon
Menaechmus Oenopides Philolaus Philon Theaetetus...
-
Asterius and his
brother Amphion were
called the
children of
Hypso while Hippasus was said to be
their father. Pausanias, 2.15.5
Barber 1991 p. 381 Nonnus...
-
certainty about the time or cir****stances of this discovery, but the name of
Hippasus of
Metapontum is
often mentioned. For a while, the
Pythagoreans treated...
-
comparison of
integer multiples of a
common subunit.
According to one legend,
Hippasus of
Metapontum (ca. 470 B.C.) was
drowned at sea for
making known the existence...
-
Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who
produced a (most
likely geometrical)
proof of the
irrationality of the
square root of 2. The
story goes that
Hippasus discovered...
